Meta Curbs Censorship & Trump's Second Term Plans | 1.8.25
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg vows to curb censorship on his social media platforms, calling Trump's re-election a tipping point on free speech.
What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas. And it's gone too far.
What led to the change and how could it affect public discourse?
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The fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created.
That was Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing that the company's platforms, including Facebook, will no longer use fact-checkers to moderate content.
Here with more is Daily Wire culture reporter, Megan Basham. Hey Megan, so the era of heavy-handed content policing at Facebook really began after Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Many Democrats and legacy media outlets began pressuring social media companies to crack down on what they called misinformation. That carried over to suppressing dissenting views on COVID, and eventually it came out that government agencies were actually pressuring these companies to censor specific users and outlets, including us here at the Daily Wire. Let's start with maybe an obvious question. Is Zuckerberg doing this now simply because of Trump's reelection?
Yeah, I would say there's no question that's what he's doing. So, you know, he was actually pretty transparent in his announcement that he sees the 2024 election as a message from the American people that this is a new era and that they want to see a return to free speech principles. He said that he plans to work with President Trump to push back on governments in Europe that are passing censorship laws and regulations. And he noted that the Biden administration actually worked against that effort during their tenure. And then he offered something of a mea culpa for letting his platforms become a big part of the problem.
We've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.
Now, part of that simplification is community notes that allow for crowdsourced fact checks that simply add corrections or context to the bottom of posts rather than removing them or deemphasizing them. Zuckerberg also says that they're gonna be promoting civic content again, so political content, because he believes that people do wanna see that. And he said that the platforms are also going to get rid of some restrictions on hot button topics like immigration and gender in order to allow more opinions to be expressed. And then this was a really interesting one. He said they'll be moving the content moderation team from California to Texas to help draw from a less biased talent pool.
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