I truly believe we are living inside of a slow revolution right now.
And look who's joined the party:
Yes, the Financial Times and other outlets are reporting this, and I simply cannot believe it's happening.
It looks like Zuck, and Meta as a whole, are regretting all the censorship they brought to their platforms back during the Covid years. They censored a lot of speech, and they know Trump and the Right will never forget it.
They seem to be asking for forgiveness for this sin against liberty, and it's not the first time it's come up.
Here's what Zuck wrote to Jim Jordan back in August:
In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.
Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
Regret. That's what this is.
And now, Zuckerberg wants an "active role" in Trump's tech policy, which is both scary and kind of exciting at the same time. He went down to Mar-a-Lago last week to talk it out with Trump.
Sir Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said the social media platform previously ‘overdid it a bit' when moderating pandemic-related content, a concession that appears designed to placate the president-elect, who has repeatedly accused the company of censorship and silencing conservative speech.
Clegg's comments come as Silicon Valley leaders are jockeying to curry favour with Trump, who in the past has repeatedly clashed with what he considers a left-leaning constituency that has funded his opponents and censored him.
In a briefing with journalists, Clegg said Zuckerberg was keen to play ‘an active role in the debates that any administration needs to have about maintaining America's leadership in the technological sphere'.
This seems important, so I'll leave it right here.
We can hope that Zuck will change.
It's not a guarantee.
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