Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Summary

Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta will eliminate factcheckers, reduce content censorship, and recommend more political content on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

He emphasized prioritizing free speech, inspired by Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Meta plans to replace factcheckers with “community notes,” similar to Elon Musk’s X platform, and shift content moderation teams to Texas.

Restrictions on sensitive topics like immigration and gender will be eased, focusing moderation on severe violations.

Critics and Meta’s oversight board urge external input to ensure effective, balanced content governance.

  • Badland9085@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Zuckerberg said Meta’s “factcheckers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created”.

    Well which side of the political spectrum’s just been spewing bullshit after bullshit to make fact checkers look like they are acting more heavy-handedly towards one side?

    Not that logic matters to these people anyways. The idea has always been “I don’t like what these people are saying”, and they’ve now reached a point where they don’t even care if people call em out.