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.
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I remember way back before I retired. Maybe 20 years ago our corporation had a staff meeting about new social media companies. They highlighted Twitter. We saw videos, and teleconferenced with one of their higher ups.
They were selling it as a way to search, get data and hold virtual meetings etc.
Immediately I realized it was far left. They were pushing these now what we would call woke concepts in something I thought that was irrelevant. You know
These key terms like “Social Justice” and opportunities for disadvantaged “people of color” and “LGBTQ rights” etc etc.
Musk has been a godsend for Twitter, now X. Dorsey was almost a clone for Suckerberg.
This morning I heard that Dana White is joining Facebook’s Board Of Directors. Interesting.
Well, the headline includes Instagram.
Meta is preparing itself to assist with the new leftist resistance.
First thought- Zuck wants to collect the “free speech” posts of ”the opposition” during the next four years, which will be used against them when the left inevitably resumes power. Canceling/fines/jail for any conservatives. Its already happening in Britain.
No.
Trump was.
the transformation in Zuckerberg has been very interesting.
As of today, they are still using Fact Checkers.
Zuck cuck is, as usual, lying.
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