Mark Zuckerberg Reveals He Was Almost Sentenced to Death in Pakistan on Joe Rogan Podcast

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he was "almost sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan." Commenting about the legal hurdles his company is facing, he said on the Joe Rogan podcast that there were challenges for Meta within Pakistan due to a lawsuit with respect to alleged blasphemous content on Facebook.

The lawsuit accused Facebook with hosting content in violation of Pakistan's stringent blasphemy laws. Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that Meta wants to strike a balance between free expression and respect for local regulations and cultural values in some countries.

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He said, “There are laws in different countries that we disagree with. For example, there was a point at which someone was trying to get me sentenced to death in Pakistan because someone on Facebook had a picture where they had a drawing of Prophet Mohammed, and someone said, ‘That’s blasphemy in our culture.’ They sued me and opened this criminal proceeding."

“I don’t know exactly where it went because I’m just not planning to go to Pakistan, so I was not that worried about it," he continued.

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Mark Zuckerberg also discussed the increasing pressure on tech companies exposed to stricter content regulation.

He said, “The point is, there are places around the world that just have different values that go against our free expression values and want us to crack down and ban way more stuff than I think a lot of people would believe would be the right thing to do. To have those governments be able to exert the power of saying they’re going to throw you in prison – that’s a lot of force. I think this is one of the things that the US government is probably going to need to help defend the American tech companies abroad."

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