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Comment by bhouston

Zuckerberg knows which way the winds are blowing in the US Capital and is ensuring he is aligned with them so to avoid political blowback on his company.

I suspect the changes to the fact checking / free speech will align with Trump's political whims. Thus fact checking will be gone on topics like vaccines, trans people, threats from immigrants, etc.

While the well documented political censorship at Meta affecting Palestine will remain because it does align with Trump's political whims...

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship...

- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/29/m...

- https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram-israel-palesti...

parent bhouston 1 year ago

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