Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Meta is super-duper apologetic for censoring its political enemies for years on end. He promises to do better because his tech behemoth is actually a huge fan of free expression … They’ve just made a few “mistakes.”
That’s about as sincere as Meta’s PR blitz got, with Zuckerberg pointing the finger at pretty much everybody — legacy media, “complex” and “automated systems,” “filters,” political “movements,” the state of California, the U.S. government, experts, and third-party fact-checkers — except himself.
“The problem with complex systems is they make mistakes,” Zuckerberg apologized rationalized in a video message. “After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased.”
Many conservatives seem tickled at the thought of the second coming of Elon, savior of free speech. But color me more skeptical and enraged. I’m sure Zuckerberg’s sudden change of heart has nothing to do with Donald Trump getting ready to retake office after Zuckerberg banned him from Facebook and rigged the 2020 election against him …
If Meta follows through on its promises, the country will undoubtedly benefit. Moving tech employees from California to Texas sounds like an improvement. Accounts not being nuked for calling a man a man and a woman a woman is objectively good and long overdue, even if it’s the bare minimum a social media site can do. […]
— Read More: thefederalist.com
