Former CNN reporter Maria Ressa won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.” However, as the heads of the social media platforms move past their relationship with fact-checking companies and towards greater freedom of speech, she warned Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart that America is sliding towards “kleptocracy.”
While Jeff Bezos does not run a social media site, he does run the Washington Post, and recently he has had some ideas about its editorial page, which led Stewart to claim, “I’ve been a little bit shocked at Zuckerberg, Bezos. You know, he goes into the Washington Post and he says, ‘Hey, from now on, our opinion page is not opinion. I have two pillars that I’m completely pretending I abide by, which is free markets and personal liberty,’ basically a more libertarian…
