MRC President and Founder Brent Bozell commended Meta following a stunning announcement on free speech by the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Four years after the major social media platforms censored the then-President of the United States Donald Trump, Zuckerberg promised that Meta would “get rid of fact-checkers” at Facebook and Instagram. He also said that the platforms would majorly curtail the frequency and types of automated content moderation (censorship). And Zuckerberg also noted that the Meta platforms will allow more personalization regarding what users see in feeds, including again allowing political content to be seen. Bozell thanked Zuckerberg for taking this step after years of censorship and election interference on his platforms and called on other major platforms such as Google and TikTok to do the same.
“I commend Mark…
