Just as Mark Zuckerberg just threw his hat into the freedom ring, Elon Musk is no longer the only one working to ensure First Amendment rights are respected on social media platforms. do not have.
Meta CEO Zuckerberg announced that the company will adopt the X standard and restore free speech protections across its Facebook, Instagram, and Meta platforms. Meta also plans to eliminate third-party fact-checking programs and instead mimic X's community notes system to remove criminal and fake content.
“I hear what Zack is saying. He says he wants free speech, but I don't know if it will really sink in that this is actually happening,” he said on “Blaze News Tonight. 's Jill Savage told co-host Matthew Peterson and Blaze TV Media critic Rob Eno.
“Can we just forget about the past? We know this has been going on on Facebook for years,” she added.
“We absolutely know how this has been happening on Facebook for years. I mean, they've spent $100 million since 2016 funding fact-checking companies. They're used to fact-checking the company to make sure it's true,” Eno explains.
Meta's head of global policy, Joel Kaplan, said in a statement that the company believed it was ensuring safety and preventing the spread of inaccurate information, only to find out that this was not actually the case. I admitted that there wasn't.
“We block legitimate political speech, including people like ourselves, because experts have biases and viewpoints,” Eno said. “I mean, just think about all the things that Facebook has said to be wrong because of fact checkers: that hydroxychloroquine is a deworming drug for horses, that it treats viral infections, that masks work, etc. “The mRNA shot was not a Nobel Prize-winning drug that stopped infection.''
“All these things, when our people, Blaze people, Daily Caller people, Breitbart people, people from all walks of life said it, they got shut down,” he said. continued.
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