Zuckerberg admits Facebook meddled in abortion election

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Wikimedia Commons)

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to a speech to a like-minded audience that his company essentially meddled in the Irish referendum on legalizing abortion by refusing to run advertisements by pro-life groups.

Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in the Colorado resort town, he said that when Facebook saw the pro-life ad requests, the company contacted the Irish government and asked whether they should be allowed, reported PJ Media.

"Their response at the time was, 'We don't currently have a law, so you need to make whatever decision you want to make,'" Zuckerberg said.

"We ended up not allowing the ads."

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As WND reported one week ahead of the May 25, 2018, referendum, pro-life groups were charging Facebook and Google effectively were rigging the election by depriving opponents of the ability to dissent.

Irish voters ended up overturning a 1983 constitutional pro-life amendment.

Ireland has a population of roughly 4.7 million people, with 78 percent considering themselves Catholic, according to the 2016 census.