Commentary
The pendulum moderating speech on social media is swinging back in favour of freedom.
That’s a good thing if the motivation for Meta Platforms chairman Mark Zuckerberg’s stunning shift towards liberty is what he says it is—a return to core beliefs—and not merely kowtowing to a new American administration.
Zuckerberg announced Jan. 7 that, going forward, Meta’s platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and Threads—will default to protecting freedom of expression by reducing the number of “fact-checkers” and relying more heavily on the sort of “community notes” used by Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter.
“We want to undo the mission creep that has made our rules too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement,” the company’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan, stated on Facebook’s website….