Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta boasted about a “fundamental shift” of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) in every part of your life.
Facebook and Instagram, both Meta-owned social media platforms, already attempt to control what users see online, including through censorship and manipulation of free speech. As Meta boasted in a year-end report of its “mixed reality” AI features, smart glasses, and future “human-level AI,” one thing is clear: Meta aims to make its technology inseparable from people’s daily lives. On the other hand, it has adopted an “open source” business model to make its source code available and transparent to the public, the opposite of Google’s approach, which aims to keep its dark arts secret. 
But how dangerous would it be for a company that attempts to control free speech to be shaping people’s perception of…
