Admitting it has gone too far, Meta’s platforms of Facebook and Instagram are ending their ‘fact checking’ programs and restrictions on speech to allegedly restore free expression, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a video posted Tuesday.
“We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said. “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.”
The shift to an X-style model with community notes replacing the heavy hand of internet censorship will be rolled out over the next few months, according to Zuckerberg.
“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,” Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan said in an interview with Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.
The fact checking program was put in place following the Democrats loss of the 2016 election. Its purpose was to manage user’s content and censor what it deemed as ‘misinformation’. The move was initiated by political pressure, explained Zuckerberg.
“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,” Zuckerberg said. “But fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S.”
Meta’s man went on to discuss specific topics that will no longer be taboo on his website.
“Second, we’re going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse,” Zuckerberg said. “What started with a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas and it’s gone too far.”
Why is Facebook suddenly supporting free speech? Is there more manipulation coming? Maybe too many users have left Facebook and Zuckerberg is trying to lure them back. It’s hard to say, but after experiencing Facebook’s harsh censorship, it’s hard to believe the sweet talk about how the platform wants to support free speech.
Interestingly, website Infowars.com previously reported on an AI chatbot system which was shown to be able to control the brains of ‘conspiracy theorists’ via non-adversarial psychological manipulation strategies that employee the use of limited hangouts and the ability to feed establishment talking points back into the discussion with a target. Perhaps this move by Meta was inevitable, given the rise of more sophisticated and effective methods to control the population.
Source: https://www.infowars.com/posts/facebook-claims-it-will-allow-more-free-speech-now
