Posted on 01/07/2025 5:36:28 AM PST by Phoenix8
FIRST ON FOX – Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to "restore free expression" across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have "gone too far."
"We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a video posted Tuesday morning. "More specifically, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S."
Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, joined Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning for an exclusive interview to discuss the changes.
This is a great opportunity for us to reset the balance in favor of free expression. As Mark says in that video, what we're doing is we're getting back to our roots and free expression," Kaplan told "Fox & Friends."
Meta’s third-party fact-checking program was put in place after the 2016 election and had been used to "manage content" and misinformation on its platforms, largely due to "political pressure," executives said, but admitted the system has "gone too far."
We went to independent, third-party fact-checkers," Kaplan told Fox News Digital in an interview. "It has become clear there is too much political bias in what they choose to fact-check because, basically, they get to fact-check whatever they see on the platform."
Kaplan told Fox News Digital that Meta is "ending that completely" and will replace it with a "Community Notes" model similar to the one used on X, formerly Twitter.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
On a personal note in the last 5 years I was punished formally by Facebook..3 times? At least twice for daring to question the origins of COVID-19 and once for I think copying and pasting a quote and I suspect I’m still under some “ghosting” restrictions.
TRANSLATION: FedGov was leaning on Meta.
PREDICTION: YouTube will start showing the counts of thumbs-down votes again.
I dropped my FB in 2017, deleted every post I ever made (was very time consuming) and have never looked back.
The only reason I even had a FB account in the first place was Rush had some contest going on at the time and you had to sign up via FB. It was dormant many years before I began to actually use it.......................
Zuckerberg met with Trump at Mar a Lago on November 26, 2024. Now this announcement.
Yep! What is in there for him? This POS evil Soros DC swamp creature is not to be trusted. Sorry I just don’t ….he is a snake trying to slither himself back into American’s good grace. He is envious of Elon Musk and he wants in on the jig! I do not trust him one iota and I pray and hope Trump does not either. Use him but keep him at a distance. You know the saying….the enemy of my enemy is my friend. That should be our motto from here on out since all of a sudden the destructive American hating snakes are trying to infiltrate the base! Be very cautious before falling into the trap. Don’t forget he STILL part of the globalist elitist pukes who have caused so much damage across Europe and the world!
I came here for the racy pictures and stayed for the political commentary? What serious person goes to instagram for enlightenment?
going back to it is as easy as flipping a switch... once a totalitarian supporter, always a totalitarian supporter.
No not instagram, Facebook.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
“Restore”??? When did they ever have true free speech? When did they not censor?
I suspect they will be about as fair and balanced now as CNN has “become” since they decided to be more fair and balanced... ie nothing will change.
I will never trust Zuckerberg. He is a slime weasel.
Meta, Zuckerberg ,Facebook, Instagram, Google, and .. lies.. They may say one thing while doing the opposite..
Ignore their words.
I will believe it when Facebook executives sign affadavits providing details on the Democrats “political pressure” naming names, dates, providing memos etc etc etc....
Without details this is just posturing.
Name the censors.
Shame the censors.
Make them accountable.
ZUck may be done with the Deep State - but I doubt the Deep State is done with Zuck...
“Meta ends fact-checking program as Zuckerberg vows to restore free expression on Facebook, Instagram”
So who was responsible for destroying free expression in the first place Zuck? Seems to me all you elite billionaires are now lining up to kiss Trump’s ring in case your financial empires might be in danger of being exposed as puppets to the Democrats’ plan for absolute power.
yeah, never got into FB. I have an account to see posts from relatives, but have never commented or posted. Have hated FB for years, and Zuckerberg’s involvement in 2020 made him an enemy.
His video
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook and Instagram will now prioritize free speech
https://rumble.com/v66srep-mark-zuckerberg-says-facebook-and-instagram-will-now-prioritize-free-speech.html
Does this mean they are laying off the FBI agents assigned to FakeBook?
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