Pelosi’s Relationship With Big Tech Shifts As Privacy And Antitrust Questions Mount

A smartphone shows a Facebook notice that additional reporting is available on a doctored video posted last week showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appearing to slur her words in San Francisco on May 28.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been leaving Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hanging.

Following Facebook’s decision not to take down an altered video of Pelosi which suggested the speaker had been drunk, Zuckerberg reached out personally to the speaker, which was first reported by The Washington Post last month.

In the time since, Pelosi has still not returned the powerful executive’s call, according to a source familiar with the speaker’s views. While spurning Zuckerberg, the speaker has also since taken a meeting with Chris Hughes, an original Facebook founder who has made waves recently by calling for Facebook to be broken up.