On the Monday edition of the Fox Business Network’s Intelligence Report, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell reiterated his hope that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will keep “to his word” and maintain a genuine “interest at the top at Facebook to go after fake news not to go after policy.”

However, Bozell warned that the MRC will “have something to say big time” if Zuckerberg falls into a “serious” trap being sprung by ultra-liberal billionaire George Soros to silence conservatives under this guise of stopping fake news.

Host Trish Regan set the scene prior to welcoming on Bozell by outlining how minuscule of an audience these fake news sites have which traditional journalists have been crusading against:

But here is the thing, fake news actually in reality it's not that big a deal. The site denverguardian.com, it actually did the best, ranked 92,000 in web traffic. In other words, people go to 91 other sites — 91,000 other sites before they go to this fake one. The Patriot News Agency, another one that’s fake, it ranks nearly 185,000 and has a total of 113 likes — a whopping 113 on Facebook...So real news sites, to keep it in perspective, a site FoxNews.com is in the top of one hundred. So, the point being really no one goes to these fake sites[.]

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Concerning Soros’s push to fund efforts to supposedly stop fake news, Bozell ruled that “it’s serious” and similar to the Fairness Doctrine’s push to silence talk radio even though, in the case of fake news sites, they had nothing to do with the outcome of the election.

“Look, fake news exists. It is the story of the Pope endorsing Donald Trump. These are these click bait organizations, you click on there so they can sell you a product. That is fake news. That needs to be exposed and that needs to be flushed down the toilet but that’s not a huge issue. If that's all we were talking about, fine, what they’re talking about is going after conservative organizations and conservative thought because it's quote, unquote, fake news,” Bozell explained.

Bozell also referred to an attempt by MSNBC’s Joy Reid to label the MRC as accepting of fake news as proof of that the left is far more concerned with stopping opposing viewpoints:

You're already seeing reporters doing this. MSNBC tried it this morning on me. You now have left-wing organizations influencing the advertising community with some of these fact-checking organizations. They have put Breitbart on the list. They have put my organization — NewsBusters — on the list, so this is censorship. This is serious business and these left-wingers need to be exposed. I hate to say it, this goes all the way to President Obama who’s been using this language.

Bozell added that if Soros was truly concerned about thwarting fake news, “then [he] wouldn't be putting money into it.” Instead, it’s an excuse to ban conservative viewpoints “as being false.”

Later on, Regan inquired with Bozell about his discussions with Facebook’s Zuckerberg in light of the site’s proposal to begin flagging content that’s legitimately false:

[L]ook, you know, people have accused me of being too, you know, deferential to him, but I don't think I have been. I think he has expressed interest at the top at Facebook to go after fake news not to go after policy and he has — he’s told me, he has been absolutely insistent on this. I take him for his word but if we see Facebook do this, then we’re going to have something to say big time or as they say, bigly.

Here’s the transcript of Bozell’s segment from FBN’s The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan on December 19: