For far too long, tech monopolies have controlled free speech and political discourse online. It’s been incredibly clear that they have regularly restricted conservative speech—whether it be as overt as silencing full media organizations for sharing the Hunter Biden laptop story or as unknown as suspending your grandmother’s Facebook account for sharing a “spicy” meme that criticizes Democrat policy.
After President Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in November, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent company Meta, announced that the company would end its “third party fact-checking program and [move] to a Community Notes model.” This follows the successful strategy for allowing free speech in online discourse that Elon Musk took with X.
Zuckerberg in his announcement further added that Meta had been “over-enforcing our rules, limiting legitimate…
