Meta's Free Speech Mea Culpa: HHR January 12, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for fact checkers having 'gone too far' and says the Feds ‘pushed’ Meta to censor potentially life-saving information about COVID-19 on Facebook and Instagram.
This Week: Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for, and then cancels, Facebook’s fact checkers, and says the Feds ‘pushed’ Meta to censor and suppress potentially life-saving information about COVID-19 on Facebook and Instagram.
All Apologies
In a video post titled, More Speech and Fewer Mistakes, the Chairman of Meta Platforms, Mark Zuckerberg, apologized for the horrible idea (and even worse application) of Facebook fact checkers, a content moderation approach that he said had “gone too far.”
‘Gone Too Far,’ or Too Far Gone?
In recent years we’ve developed increasingly complex systems to manage content across our platforms, partly in response to societal and political pressure to moderate content. This approach has gone too far. …too much harmless content gets censored, too many people find themselves wrongly locked up in “Facebook jail,” and we are often too slow to respond when they do.
Starting in the US, we are ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.
We will allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations.
We will take a more personalized approach to political content, so that people who want to see more of it in their feeds
Were They ‘Pushed’ or did They Jump?
Later in the week, Zuckerberg 3.0 joined the Joe Rogan Experience and complained the Biden Administration yelled at him and ‘pushed’ Meta to censor and suppress potentially life-saving information about COVID-19 on Facebook and Instagram.
FLCCC Senior Fellow Dr. Chris Martenson was quick to fact-check the Facebook founder’s claim regarding fact-checkers and COVID-19 vaccines.
When Push Turned to Shove, ‘Zuck Tapped Out
Go and Sin No More?
From adding Dana White to the Meta Board of Directors to a return to a more sensible form of content moderation at Facebook and Instagram, fellow tech bro Mike Solana chooses to see the good in the pivot.
Listen, if he screws up again, I’ll sound the alarm. But for now? …There's already been a dramatic decrease in censorship across the meta platforms. but a public statement of this kind plainly speaking truth (the "fact checkers" were biased, and the policy was immoral) is really and finally the end of a golden age for the worst people alive. — Mike Solana, Pirate Wires
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I will never trust Zuckerberg, certainly not after a hostage-like apology and token firing of fact checkers. (AI likely could take their place.)
Trust must be earned through long-term deeds, not just words. Zuckerberg’s words appear coerced, just as his deeds supposedly were coerced by the Biden administration.
Zuckerberg does what he has to do to stay in business and make money. His character is weak and his principles virtually nonexistent; otherwise, he would have stood against censorship and tyranny, like the FLCCC, dissident doctors and laypersons, Elon Musk (to an extent), Substack, Rumble, and a few other smaller platforms did.
A new administration does not necessarily make a new man. Zuckerberg may have realized the error of his ways, but I fear his spots simply change with the political winds.
To be clear, there was NO apology. I agree with Bret Weinstein's recent take on this.