It’s no secret that culture has heavily influenced politics over the years. Gay couples appeared in movies and TV shows long before the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015. Likewise, Marxist and socialist ideals have been glorified in Hollywood, making way for those ideas to be promoted by lawmakers in Washington.
Now, conservative politics appear to be influencing culture in a way that has not been seen for some time.
The political right watched in surprise Tuesday as Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and CEO of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, announced that Meta is embracing a free-speech model. Zuckerberg explained that Meta, which also includes Instagram, will end its use of “fact-checkers” and will instead move to a community-notes style of moderation, such as the one that the platform X currently uses.
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