Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's master of the war of words, has committed a grave sin.
In a video posted on Tuesday, Zack announced that Meta would be eliminating its left-handed biased third-party fact-checking system and replacing it with X-style “community notes.”
“It's time to go back to the roots of freedom of expression on Facebook and Instagram,” he said, adding that content moderation systems “shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas” and have gone “too far.” I admitted that.
This is a victory for open speech and further evidence that the left's unscrupulous grip on cultural spaces is weakening.
And Zack warned that the fight for free speech is a global one, with Europe still heading in the wrong direction, adding: “The only way to reverse this global trend is with the support of the U.S. government. This is due to the
But Zuckerberg has a lot to atone for. “Sorry about that!” I'm not going to cut it.
And we cannot put all the blame on faceless, nameless “fact checkers.”
It was his own executives who decided to expel Donald Trump and bow down to the FBI and other forces within the Biden Justice Department, including the Post's reporting on Hunter, which runs counter to the Democratic agenda. The company was pressured to silence the account that posted it. Biden.
Zack may be a free speech fighter now, but in 2020 he was Facebook. boasted About the slap The 50 million coronavirus-related posts with warning labels include posts suggesting the virus is man-made, a theory now supported by mounting evidence. It is being
In fact, until Mr. Zuckerberg started feeling the heat from Congress over Facebook's content moderation standards, Facebook treated censorship as a public good.
It's not like we're suppressing freedom of speech! it was just Preventing the “spread of false information” and “protecting people from harmful content.”
Facebook and Instagram are huge platforms that have a huge impact on what people see, know, and think, so Zuckerberg's pro-speech course correction is welcome.
But Mr. Mehta's years of efforts to trample on speech in order to continue to benefit from the Biden administration and the left in general have resulted in more than a simple apology.
Don't leave him alone so easily.
