Glenn Beck says Facebook is “a tool not unlike radio, TV or even the telephone.” Glenn Beck to meet with Mark Zuckerberg

Media personality Glenn Beck will meet with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook officials this week in the wake of a report that the company had suppressed the flow of trending stories by conservative voices and outlets.

Beck said he and his publication, The Blaze, were mentioned in the report produced about trending topics on Facebook.


He wrote in a lengthy Facebook post, appropriately, how Facebook is “a tool not unlike radio, TV or even the telephone.”

“If it is to be as ubiquitous as Alexander Graham Bell’s invention, it must remain as unbiased as the telephone, otherwise it too will fracture or fall apart over time due to competitors who will carve out their own place without agenda,” he said.

Beck acknowledges that Facebook is a private business, and while he supports the company’s ability to run shop its own way, “it would be wonderful if a tool like face book [sic] INDEPENDENTLY CHOSE to hold up Freedom of speech and freedom of association as a corporate principle.”

“I fear if they don’t, the big government establishment progressives will, at some point, make Facebook a ‘utility’ and destroy it for everyone,” he said.