Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s past comments on censorship have resurfaced following his decision to end fact-checking on his U.S. platforms, revealing a storied timeline of seemingly contradictory positions that appeared to put him at odds with his company. As controversy swirled over his refusal to fact-check political ads in 2019, Zuckerberg asserted that Facebook did […]
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Flashback: Meta’s ‘history of censorship,’ fact-checking woes under the Trump, Biden administrations
Experts and journalists hope Meta will continue to move toward free speech and avoid the content moderation policies that plagued Facebook under the Biden administration. “Meta has a terrible history of censorship in the Biden era. They took direction from the government to censor COVID-19 content; they shut down the sharing of the New York […]