Should we hail Mark Zuckerberg as a truth teller … this late in the game?
Facebook founder and Meta CEO got a lot of attention this week for finally ‘fessing up to colluding with the government to censor the speech of his customers. Zuckerberg’s letter offers his “regrets,” as Jazz notes skeptically, for Facebook’s rush to bend the knee to Big Brother and ludicrous “fact checking” schemes by the mainstream media. That’s true of both COVID-19 discussion, Zuckerberg admits, and the McCarthy-esque effort to paint exposure of Biden family corruption as “Russian disinformation.”
Please note, however, that it took Zuckerberg at least three years to see the light on both tracks. As John McClane might say:
Matt Taibbi sees this letter as a bombshell against government overreach, however. In an essay titled “Zuckerberg…