Mark Zuckerberg Promises Not to Censor Anymore — Will He Make Up for Punishing Truth Tellers Before; Don’t Let Facebook Off the Hook for Its Pro-Censorship Past So Easily

Two weeks before the inauguration of Donald Trump — a man who has vowed to dismantle and destroy the Censorship-Industrial Complex that silenced him and millions of other Americans — one of the figures most responsible for the censorship regime delivered a message.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that his company had engaged in “too much censorship,” and declared that with the “cultural tipping point” of recent elections, his platforms would now be undertaking efforts to “restore free expression.”

But has the tech titan really seen the light on free speech, and will Meta truly overhaul itself accordingly?

Or is this a cynical and self-interested attempt to beg for forgiveness/pay for protection with shifting political winds, leading to cosmetic and temporary reforms?

Prudence demands that we distrust and verify.

Remember, Meta used internal tools to suppress traffic to conservative content after the 2016 election.

It censored The New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story.

It participated in the fed-led Election Integrity Partnership, responsible for purging wrongthink about election integrity and outcomes during the 2020 election.

It booted Trump from the platform for two years after January 6 — reinstating his accounts only with “heightened penalties for repeat offenses.”

It purged dissent from COVID-ian orthodoxy en masse.

The consequences have been incalculable for the individuals, activists, and journalists silenced and the body politic itself.

Are those who have had their rights violated when Meta acted as the feds’ deputized speech police just supposed to accept this 180?

What about the outlets who lost traffic and saw their business models imperiled?

And how about the American public at large that lost out on critical news and views that could have swung the 2020 election — allowing us to avoid the disasters of the last four years — or led to pandemic mitigation measures that would have protected our liberty and preserved our prosperity rather than eroding them both?

The least Zuckerberg could do, as The Post’s Miranda Devine has suggested, is open the Facebook Files so Americans can get a full accounting of Meta’s censorship efforts, which would form the basis for informing executive action, legislation, and potential lawsuits.

And to that end, shouldn’t Zuckerberg support — with released documents, if not legal and financial support — those engaged in litigation right now against federal authorities aimed at prohibiting their collusion, coercion and cajoling of social media platforms to censor protected speech?

Should Zuckerberg not also provide some sort of restitution to those who lost their accounts under censorious policies barring their core political speech without any sort of due process — particularly if those policies came under government duress? —>READ MORE HERE

Don’t let Facebook off the hook for its pro-censorship past so easily:

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, overlord of Facebook’s war on speech, just offered a mea culpa.

In a video posted Tuesday, Zuck announced that Meta is dropping its third-party fact-checking system, which he acknowledged is riddled with lefty bias, and replace it with X-style “community notes.”

“It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram,” he said, admitting that the content-moderation system had “shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas” and “gone too far.”

It’s a win for open discourse and more evidence that the left’s vice-tight grip on cultural spaces is weakening.

And give Zuck points for warning that the free-speech battle is global, with Europe still headed the wrong way: “The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US government.”

But Zuckerberg has a lot to atone for; a “sorry about that!” isn’t going to cut it.

And he can’t heap all of the blame on faceless, nameless “fact-checkers.”

His own execs were the ones deciding to ban Donald Trump and kowtow to the FBI and other forces within the Biden Justice Department, which pressured the company to silence accounts that posted content that ran afoul of the Democrats’ agenda, including The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden.

Zuck may be a free-speech warrior now, but back in 2020, Facebook bragged about slapping 50 million COVID-related posts with a warning label, including posts suggesting the virus was man-made — a theory now backed by mountains of evidence. —>READ MORE HERE

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