We had started out talking about Alex Jones, one of the worst people on the Internet (and in the world), who had pushed mendacious conspiracies about the mass murder of children in the Sandy Hook school shooting. He used Zuckerberg’s social network as his vehicle, even as he gamed it by breaking all the rules that the company had laid down. I wanted to know why Jones had not been tossed off the network, but Mark decided to double down on him in the interview. “Look, as abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice,”
