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And he wasn’t done yet. The conversation soon turned to another taboo—one that most tech CEOs wouldn't dare touch: the role of media elites in misjudging, mislabeling, and underestimating ordinary people. Strange coming from the man involved in censoring millions of Americans and the president himself, but nonetheless, Zuckerberg unleashed on the media. He slammed the entire idea that the public is too dumb to make their own decisions, a belief quietly pushed by many in the media. “Like, I've always been a person who really kind of believes that people are smarter than people think,” he said, “and, and I think in general, are able to make good decisions for their lives.” The real problem, Zuckerberg argued, isn’t the people — it’s the media’s failure to understand them. “And when they do things that like the media or whatever thinks don't make sense, it's generally because the media doesn't understand their life, not because the people are stupid.” In one of the sharpest moments of the interview, he flipped the whole “misinformation” narrative on its head. “Like if people are saying something that seems wrong, it's not usually misinformation. It's usually that you don't understand what's going on in that person's life.” And he didn’t stop there. Zuckerberg called out the deep-rooted arrogance that still runs through legacy media outlets. “I just think that there's like a certain kind of paternalism in, in some of the, like, mainstream narratives and some of the media narratives,” he said. But now, he hinted, the tide might finally be turning — because the so-called “experts” are losing their grip. “I think it's a little more receptive as maybe some of those cultural or media elite people are having a harder time predicting what's going to happen in the world. Maybe there's a little more humility of like, okay, maybe we don't understand all of this.”

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