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.
Another arm of the Trump administration. Goebbels would be amazed.
Yeahhh! Wooooooh! Fascism!!! Go go go go go!
– Mark Zuckerberg, probably
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“The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising speech.”
Reminds me of how Elron is saying they’re going to censor or punish “negative” speech, as decided by Elron. Just in reverse. I can imagine the type of opinions Zucker is planning to enable on FB etc due to the “recent elections”.
More political discussion sounds completely awful as having a constant stream of irritating or provocative political topics shoved in my face is why I left Twitter. Currently threads is surprisingly good about that, so makes sense they’re planning to ruin it.
As far as making their systems work better for not censoring things that don’t need to be censored, that would be nice as it’s been a legitimate problem. I don’t have a huge amount of confidence though as they’ve always been terrible about that, like Twitter.
“I hope that guy gets murdered.”
What, that’s free speech. Which is a priority now. Under another guy “who should get murdered on, like, next Tuesday at 6pm.” And anyone who wants to posit that this is simply another hypocritcial move to flood the social waves with right-wing spewformation to lock in riches for the rich and pain for the poors is simply not a good businessman. Clearly there’s been an “overwhelming mandate” for “free speech”.
Because nothing matters and what if it did.
Tech billionaires had 4 years to prepare for another Trump term and they‘re not wasting a second to go full fascist this time around. The parallels to industrials in and around 1930s Germany are horrifyingly staggering. These lizards only care about the bottom line. Always did.
bold move for an app whose user base joined largely because twitter sucked to make it more like twitter. let’s see how that plays out for them
So this means Meta will finally stop censoring any picture that has an inch of skin, even if it’s under clothing, as sexual activity. Right?
Right?
So this means Meta will finally stop censoring any picture I post that has an inch of skin, even if it’s under three layers of clothing, as sexual activity. Right?
Right?
