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I’m Done With Politics – HotAir

Great! Does that mean the Facebook founder and CEO is also done with censorship based on politics, too?

Perhaps, although the topic barely comes up in this New York Times report on Mark Zuckerberg’s sharp reversal on political engagement. It mentions his letter to Congress expressing his regret over having caved to “pressure” from the federal government to intervening in discussions and debate over COVID-19 policies. As I noted at the time, though, Zuckerberg didn’t couple that regret with disclosures of the correspondence from the government’s censorship campaign, as Elon Musk did immediately after buying Twitter.

That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have regrets — more than a few, apparently:

As recently as June at the Allen and Company conference — the “summer camp for billionaires” in Sun Valley, Idaho — Mr. Zuckerberg complained to multiple people about the blowback to Meta…

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