Casey Newton

The premise of Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network is that Mark Zuckerberg was a unlucky in love loser who started Facebook because he was desperate to meet girls and would essentially stop at nothing to do that. When in reality, At Harvard, Zuckerberg was dating the woman who is now still his wife, Priscilla Chan, and that was true the entire time.

And it's just sort of left on the cutting room floor, but it actually is quite a profound deception because the entire film rests on this premise of why Facebook was started that just is not true.

And it's just sort of left on the cutting room floor, but it actually is quite a profound deception because the entire film rests on this premise of why Facebook was started that just is not true.

And it's just sort of left on the cutting room floor, but it actually is quite a profound deception because the entire film rests on this premise of why Facebook was started that just is not true.

Before 2016, Facebook had... pretty light moderation in a lot of ways. Their workforce of content moderators was relatively small. They would do irresponsible things like set up shop in countries in the global south where they did not have any or more than a couple employees who spoke the language. It was just sort of grow, grow, grow at all costs.

Before 2016, Facebook had... pretty light moderation in a lot of ways. Their workforce of content moderators was relatively small. They would do irresponsible things like set up shop in countries in the global south where they did not have any or more than a couple employees who spoke the language. It was just sort of grow, grow, grow at all costs.

Before 2016, Facebook had... pretty light moderation in a lot of ways. Their workforce of content moderators was relatively small. They would do irresponsible things like set up shop in countries in the global south where they did not have any or more than a couple employees who spoke the language. It was just sort of grow, grow, grow at all costs.

but he had this understanding of free speech, which was just frankly very similar to the set of values that were handed to me growing up in America in the 80s and 90s, where, for example, there was a lot of tolerance for Holocaust denial, not because folks agreed with it, but because we held this value of free speech so preciously in America that we thought that the way to fight back against all forms of prejudice

but he had this understanding of free speech, which was just frankly very similar to the set of values that were handed to me growing up in America in the 80s and 90s, where, for example, there was a lot of tolerance for Holocaust denial, not because folks agreed with it, but because we held this value of free speech so preciously in America that we thought that the way to fight back against all forms of prejudice

but he had this understanding of free speech, which was just frankly very similar to the set of values that were handed to me growing up in America in the 80s and 90s, where, for example, there was a lot of tolerance for Holocaust denial, not because folks agreed with it, but because we held this value of free speech so preciously in America that we thought that the way to fight back against all forms of prejudice

was to air it out rather than to chase it into the shadows. And so Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, famously for many, many years, permitted Holocaust denial on the platforms. And, you know, I think probably some degree of anti-Semitism directed his own way because he felt like this is just sort of how we do things in this country.

was to air it out rather than to chase it into the shadows. And so Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, famously for many, many years, permitted Holocaust denial on the platforms. And, you know, I think probably some degree of anti-Semitism directed his own way because he felt like this is just sort of how we do things in this country.

was to air it out rather than to chase it into the shadows. And so Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, famously for many, many years, permitted Holocaust denial on the platforms. And, you know, I think probably some degree of anti-Semitism directed his own way because he felt like this is just sort of how we do things in this country.

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These are the most important changes that Meta has made to content moderation and just basically what it feels like to use Facebook or Instagram since the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election.

These are the most important changes that Meta has made to content moderation and just basically what it feels like to use Facebook or Instagram since the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election.

These are the most important changes that Meta has made to content moderation and just basically what it feels like to use Facebook or Instagram since the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election.

It is going to take us some time to understand not just what the new policies are, although we do know a lot about that now, but also how they are enforced. One of the major changes is that instead of proactively scanning every post to see what policies it might violate, Meta is now going to rely on users to report things that potentially have violated those guidelines.