Mark Zuckerberg is waging a charm offensive.
His company, Meta, just agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed back in 2021 after being suspended by Facebook and Instagram.
The settlement comes on the heels of Zuckerberg’s attendance at Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Meta’s purported shift away from DEI, and an earlier announcement that the company is rolling back independent fact-checking and taking steps to reduce errors in its content moderation systems.
Zuckerberg’s sudden pivot is a welcome change. He says that he wants to return Meta “to [its] roots around free expression.” But his past track record of broken promises is cause for deep suspicion.
During the first Trump presidency, when Meta (then Facebook) faced backlash for biased censorship, Zuckerberg told a Georgetown University audience in October of…
