Mark Zuckerberg explains in this video posted today:
"What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with differing ideas...."
ADDED: Meta is moving its "trust and safety" and "content moderations" teams out of California and into Texas, where there is "less concern about [their] bias."
AND: Zuckerberg says his company needs to ally with the U.S. government in order to be able to fight the censorship that is coming from foreign governments. It's been "difficult over the past 4 years," because "even the U.S. government has pushed for censorship." "By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further. But now, we have the opportunity to restore free expression and I am excited to take it."
This is great! I hope it goes well. I wish I new more about how much of this emerged from recent hobnobbing with Musk and Trump at Mar-a-Lago, but I can see Zuckerberg is smart not to talk about that. His criticism of the Biden administration and response to Trump is plain enough.
ALSO: Here's how the NYT sums it up:
A trade-off: Mr. Zuckerberg conceded that there would be more “bad stuff” on the platform as a result of the decision. “The reality is that this is a trade-off,” he said. “It means that we’re going to catch less bad stuff, but we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.”
Advance notice: Meta executives recently gave a heads-up to Trump officials about the change in policy, according to a person with knowledge of the conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity. The fact-checking announcement coincided with an appearance by Joel Kaplan, Meta’s newly installed global policy chief, on “Fox & Friends”....
Currying favor: Ever since Mr. Trump’s victory in November, few big companies have worked as overtly to curry favor with the president-elect. In a series of announcements during the presidential transition period, Meta has sharply shifted its strategy in response to what Mr. Zuckerberg called a “cultural tipping point” marked by the election.
Inspired by X: Mr. Zuckerberg seems to be taking a page from Mr. Trump’s favorite tech mogul, Elon Musk....
Conservatives cheer: Meta’s move on Tuesday morning elated conservative allies of Mr. Trump....
Eased restrictions: Among the changes announced on Tuesday are the removal of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender identity that Mr. Zuckerberg said were “out of touch with mainstream discourse.” The company’s trust and safety and content moderation teams will be moved away from California, with the U.S. content review shifting to Texas, in a move that would “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content"....
Here's that "Fox & Friends" segment:
AND: Here's what I blogged on November 15, 2016: "Facebook, don't even try to censor fake news. You can't draw that line, and you shouldn't want to."
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At least the Zuck has a new hairstyle.
Well "NewsGuard" seems like a kind of "on the nose" name for MindGuard, which should have been your first clue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindguard
"...they trust me, the dumb fucks." - Mark Zuckersperg
Never have trusted that chode or anything he says. Never will.
And the only "experts" in disinformation actually making a living at it are those who are expert in creating it, usually for state actors.
Zuckerberg either (1) came to his senses about truth, justice, and the American Way, or (2) is covering his tracks and hoping to avoid prosecution in the near future. Given his history of IP theft (Winklevoss twins) and adoption by Bill Gates, I vote for #2. Stay away from all things Meta.
We'll see. Better late than never, perhaps. I suppose this means that Lefties will use this as another reason to hate on Meta. (There are many!)
Does meta know what a fact is
To late. Facebook is populated by oldsters - the Boomers and Gen-Xers. The Zoomers fled to Tok Tik years ago.
Break up the Meta monopoly. Make them sell instagram.
Oh No! Remember- it's illegal to say anything negative about any democrat - ever. If you do - it's fake news and disinformation.
Just like Joe's Crooked family dealings - YOU HAVE NO PROOF!
If you trust Zuckerprick, i have a bridge to sell you. The Left understands the concept of the tactical retreats. That's all this is. We're now pulling back a bit from the Leftwing hardcore censorship. But its only temporary and will be back to 100 percent when needed.
Zuck and Dorsey always seemed to me to be the most uncomfortable with the Regime Censorship Complex though it was likely less about protecting free expression and more about seeing the government could force them to give up effective control ala Microsoft and IBM. It's that bastad Sundar at Google who is the most fascist of the bunch.
This is a huge win for Trump and most of you don't seem to even see it. I was very happy to see how Zuckerberg looked spoke and acted. He seems much more normal than he was 10 or 15 years ago. I credit that to his rigorous diet and exercise program. His voice has gotten deeper he seems to have a lot more personal confidence. Maybe some you folks should consider adopting a more positive attitude towards life like he has.
Facebook's de facto slogan: "We have everything you don't care about and don't need to see, but we keep your crazy aunt from emailing you a lot of cat photos and bad jokes."
Emily Litella
Video won’t play for me.
”What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with differing ideas...."
Bullshit. The “movement” was always about shutting down opinions that the Democrats found to be uncongenial and shutting out people with unapproved ideas.
1. From CNN: “Meta has named three new members to its board of directors, including Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship chief executive who played a key role in the reelection of his longtime friend, President-elect Donald Trump.”
2. This election we all decided to kiss the frog and look what happened - the spell was broken and we’re all waking up.
I wish I new more
knew?
He's trying to get close to the Trump administration because he wants to be the one to get approved to buy TikTok.
Wow, Maybe Zuck is growing up, and growing a pair. Inspired by Musk.
Ask yourself if they really would have changed if the election had turned out differently. The answer is 'No', because there would have been no change to the incentives that were already in place, except for 'Harder, please'
I wonder if anybody believes re-locating the censors to Texas will make any difference, except a symbolic one.
Meh.
Exactly. You can tell he's finally gone through puberty
Aggie is right. They would NEVER have changed if Kamala stole this election.
I’m calling this The Trump Effect.
I think it's a little too soon to spike the football, but the signs are very encouraging that by cooperating with the Trump administration on areas of mutual agreement and interest will be good for the nation and the world rather than trying to tear down the man
Thank you Elon. Amazing how much he has helped humanity.
"Meta is moving its "trust and safety" and "content moderations" teams out of California and into Texas, where there is "less concern about [their] bias."
A finer acknowledgement of California being a totally different country you will never find. Screw the Rio Grande, I wish we could just build a wall around them.
I think it's more like the Bro effect.
The problem with California was all the legal immigration from the Northeast that turned it from a manufacturing and technology powerhouse with a decidedly libertarian streak of capitalistic intensity into the nanny state it has become.
Thank you, President-Elect Trump. I’m going to compare Trump once again to Lenny Bruce. Both took the flack for all of us by saying that which cannot be said.
Not sure what all this talk is about "trusting" Zuckerberg. What would you be doing differently if you DID trust him?
Of course he could renege on everything he's saying. So could everyone else on the planet. For now, take some pleasure in the fact that big cracks are forming in the censorship-industrial complex, as they also appear to be in the DEI-industrial complex.
A step in the right direction, so I'm going to put aside my cynicism for now and go with a trust but verify attitude.
The problem with California is that it might as well be a communist Democrat one party country.
So the "X is going to collapse" lefty narrative isn't going so well, huh?
Old wisdom - Musk is ruining X (formerly known as Twitter).*
New wisdom - we need to be more like X (formerly known as Twitter).*
* - how much longer with the "formerly known as Twitter" be necessary?
I don't like being cynical and jaded, but the oppressive weight of the past few years has had its effect from the actions of this dystopian myriad of petty tyrants. Collectively, they've had a hugely damaging effect on people's perceptions of their government, and the way it operates.
There are some that have seen it as a threat to their freedoms, and, just as dangerous, there are some that have seen these actions as a good thing - as long as it's happening to the people with a different point of view. But both of these reactions are socially toxic, especially when the only ones left are the people that don't care and accept it as normal.
” The company’s trust and safety and content moderation teams will be moved away from California, with the U.S. content review shifting to Texas, in a move that would “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content".... "
That's a remarkable action. They can't find non-lefties in California? I suspect it's more to get away from California's regulatory environment.
Relocate to Texas? Austin, no doubt.
we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down
The problem was NEVER that innocent people's posts were being accidentally taken down, it was the DELIBERATE removal of posts that ran contrary to the accepted, government-dictated positions of the day - illegal immigration, trans issues, and most notably any discussion of COVID that suggested it escaped from a Chinese lab, that masking was ineffective and unnecessary, that lock-downs should not be undertaken, or that the "vaccine" was ineffective and dangerous.
I wonder what Zuck's burner X account is named? These realizations come when people start interacting with and as regular people.
Howard - No - It's a huge loss for the corrupt left - and a win for freedom of speech.
Aggie - thread winner.
Guess it is time to finally get rid of my Facebook account. It was bad enough, with all the robo and AI generated content, which is currently just annoying rather than offensive, but this sounds like it is about to get much worse.
*yes* also - Karma. A lot of Karma and cumupance is going on. May the corrupt left be cursed.
Checking the fact-chokers?
Pierre Delicto was taken…
California has suffered badly because of 100 years of utopianism. People moved there for the gold rush, to escape the Oklahoma dust bowl, "the best weather" and "the best natural attractions" and "the best place for alternative lifestyles" and "the best opportunity to be a movie star" and "the best opportunity to be a rock star."
California immigrants often deeply hate their home states and meat-and-potatoes living. Farmers, truck drivers, store clerks...beneath them. When they arrive and discover an absurd cost of living plus poor housing and roads, they try to legislate in utopia. Instead, they become pawns of the fake-left wealthy. California's wealthy population will do anything to distract, disrupt, and maintain control.
Conservatives hate good news. I'm going to enjoy this as a rare win.
Almost certainly. Wouldn't it be hilarious to move them to Lubbock or Amarillo instead? They'd be making Netflix comedies about it in a week.
Zuck's change of heart, if sincere, is likely due to his association and training with UFC fighters, most of whom cannot stand libtards. It's like when Party member Fetterman started recovering from the stroke, his opinions became more normie. When Zuck grew a pair of testicles, he found his ideology trending rightward.
Stupid pussies find their home in the Democrat Party.
A "trust but verify" moment?
"What else have you got in your bag of tricks, Mr. Zuckerberg?"
There's always Bluesky for you, bro. Lots of Trump-hate and kiddie porn there, two things that Democrat Party members are hopelessly addicted to.
"immigration from the Northeast"
Legacy money WASPs are locusts. If anything DC and North got a few megatons, I'd be the last to cry about it.
Howard has it right, I think.
On other topics, Bill Gates is the leading promoter of global pandemics.
Zark Muckerzlorg - Digital Emperor of Zalaxia 7
The video Zuckerberg posted on Facebook really needs to be watched as no article can do it justice. It resembles a hostage video where Elon wrote a script for him to read.
I get Zuckerberg is trying to avoid problems with the new U.S. administration and hopes to operate his business without retaliation, but it really is something to see such a powerful company/executive be cowed into submission.
Who knew that the Cambridge Analytica scandal would be the beginning rather than the end.
Can't handle contrary opinion, eh? But then we knew that already.
I bet you’d kill for that hairline 🧑🦲
Well he's saying the right things. If he follows through and takes actions consistent with his new stated fondness for free speech then we'll know. Yes we all assume he would not have done this if the election had gone sideways.
I have nothing to do with social media, but I do see this as a step in the right direction. Of course NOW they admit they have been censoring the great unwashed for years!
”… but we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.”-
“Accidentally” my ass! They always knew exactly what they were doing.
Yet they still drive a helluva lot of traffic to news sites, podcasts etc when allowed to link freely. This would be a great boon to the rightish info-dudes as featured on Bongino's Rumble and the columnists populating SubStack etc. All those adults who used to watch The News didn't stop wanting actual news, they just stopped watching the canned leftist bullshit pretending to be news. This could be a watershed moment in driving traffic to good reporters and fact-based content providers.
AI is certainly making progress. Zuckerberg looks and sounds almost human.
Zucky dresses like a surfer now, but he's so pale that you know he spends his time in Hawaii in his underground survival bunker.
A win for free speech is a win for everyone. Full stop. That the slow-witted relentlessly say it's a MAGA win shows you how little free speech means to many of our fellow citizens.
It's a recognition that he wasn't the kingmaker this time. He's adapting to the fact that the rest of the country and world aren't living in his private fantasy world.
"if sincere"
It's not. Nothing about him is genuine, he's been curated since before he dropped out of Harvard.
Yike! ... Yikes ... Yikes! and Yikes again.
FIFY "The problem with California is that it has become a communist Democrat one-party state."
They only think they're a country. They're barely a state at this point.
Sell.
Announcing this publicly is the best thing about this statement. He admits what was done was wrong before, thus acknowledging the bad (if not evil) behavior, and repents somewhat by changing policy in a way that invites people to hold him accountable. He also likely sees that going before congress again with this in place puts him in a more comfortable position.
I bet you’d kill for that hairline 🧑🦲
Indeed, it's just not clear which animal you'd need to kill for its pelt.
He's also probably one of the biggest names on the secret tapes from Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile Island
No he just wears SPF 5000
There has long been a deep internal split in California: (1) "Business Democrats" vs. (2) Pie-in-the-sky batsh*t crazy lefty dreamers. Before Trump, the Business Democrats maintained control most of the time, and set the hard left in the corner. The Party split is faciliated by the post-1970s voter initiative system. In every election they pick and choose between a bunch of random proposed laws. These are often contradictory or counterproductive, and they render the state elected officials redundant and symbolic.
California is what happens when Switzerland's direct democracy is practiced on a large scale by people with few shared values and/or contradictory values. Plus, in a place with many people who have the attention spans of gnats. Direct democracy works fine for a few million rich and avoidant white Swiss who coordinate to stay rich and avoid EU chaos.
If Althouse’s dopey commenters got out of their right-wing ghetto from time to time, they’d learn the Left hates Zuckerberg with a white-hot passion that makes right-wing Zuckerberg antipathy look like pouty affection.
Anybody who believes any of Zuckerberg's current bullshit paid no attention to his last distributed bullshit that everybody bought.
They have devised far more effective means of preventing free speech and feel they can do so invisibly, so of course now they're going to be all touchy feely.
You'll be able to speak freely. But they're not required to allow anybody to hear your speech. That's how they will control speech in the new paradigm. They're unleasing AI to limit thought and expression and do it in ways that are impossible for people like Matt Taibbi to come along later and uncover.
Even the US press doesn't believe in free speech. The NY Post uses a Chinese-founded AI to restrict people's speech on their site.
Saith the NYT:
"The company’s trust and safety and content moderation teams will be moved away from California, with the U.S. content review shifting to Texas, in a move that would “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content".... "
Is there a subtext about state oversight of content? I have to wonder if CA State minders had any say on what passed muster.
I also don't think it's a given that Texans, especially in the larger cities, will be less biased than their counterparts in California. In more remote places, it could go the other way. In any case, the algorithms will still determine what gets flagged for review, and I can't say I'm sure that will produce real improvement. I'll reserve judgement.
Religious extremists always hate an apostate the most.
Why do they hate him?
Enigma said...
"California has suffered badly because of 100 years of utopianism. People moved there for the gold rush, to escape the Oklahoma dust bowl, "the best weather" and "the best natural attractions" and "the best place for alternative lifestyles" and "the best opportunity to be a movie star" and "the best opportunity to be a rock star."
If you look at an ethnolinguistic map of North America before European settlement, you'll see pockets of pretty much every language group represented on or near the West Coast. This was it then, thus has it been, at least until recently.
I'm from Missouri. Show me.
I agree with much of the above. But another wrinkle is that there is pressure by many other nations to fight "misinformation" via attacks on X, Meta, etc. Zuck might be hoping Trump will be a major defender of Meta's international aspirations.
It's hard for extraterrestrials to make friends. Zark should've been less Lizardian and more ET-phone-home, that's how you get humans to love a space invader.
The Zuckerberg hate from the left started in 2016 when he explicitly didn't censor Trump Campaign material. The stopped hating him so much when he did censor anti-Biden material in the 2020 election, but now hate him because he is getting off the censorship bandwagon.
As someone once put it, "The times, they are a-changing."
Same. Too little, too late. The disingenuous excuse is always the mark of a fool or a knave,
I’m halfway through a two week stay in Uganda, and yes, I was surprised that Facebook has been unreachable here for a number of years now due to political concerns of the 80 something president who my friends here tell me has been in power for 40 years, an even in the event of his death they believe his 50 years old son who’s the head of the military will be installed in his place.
Howitzer Howard: "This is a huge win for Trump and most of you don't seem to even see it."
LOL
Yes Howard, only you see it.
Only you. You're very very special......
According to years of postings by LLR-democratical Rich and Dumb Lefty Mark in particular, X was already supposed to be defunct, bankrupt, destroyed! Along with all the other Musk businesses!
Yet here we are.
Poor Rich. Time to go grab a couple more Harry Sisson talking points....per usual.
Apparently some of us are tired of winning.
Once again, I have nothing to add to what Wince so articularly stated.
Except this: I believe these people now as much as I believed them then.
So the right hates him for censorship and the left hates him for not censoring. I know which side of that equation I want to be on.
Musk has paid for vanity hair transplant's to claim a pelt up top.
The gimp is day drinking again today — bottoms up 🍹🍹
Is Zuckerberg the new Musk? Too soon to tell..
As a staunch defender of free speech, I plan to spend the next four years praising Trump's efforts to suppress information and sue his critics…..
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kissing the butt of his new "daddy".
Vicky is intellectually incapable of recognizing that if she's right, it means that he was just kissing other butts before.
Imbecile.
Shorter Zuck- I for one welcome our new insect overlords…what a putz…
…the s.o. watched Fox with the Meta dude, for like the whole hour. I was hoping, waiting for an apology for fucking up, but unsurprisingly none materialized. It was a tone I expect to feel quickly after inauguration, then all the time..😕
I think this is a bad business idea (whatever you think of censorship). Facebook is not X/Twitter. FB is for staying in touch with family and friends, not debating/arguing/screeching with them.
Abacus Boy Rich is wise to continue trying to run away from his many years of posting discredited business drivel even though he has described himself as a business insider type who "has been in the room when big decisions were made"...can you imagine how disastrous that must have turned out?
I shudder and weep for any shareholders impacted by LLR-democratical Rich's business "acumen".
LLR-democratical Rich: "As a staunch defender of free speech, ..."
LOL
You are no such thing, nor have you ever been. You are in fact the opposite, but the winds have shifted so its time you pretend otherwise lest history leave you behind.
Again.
LoL! reading our hostess's blog post, my search engine (duckduckgo) informed me they'd blocked the Facebook video to keep them from following me (option to view was not engaged).
The first time Trump was elected President, no major part of the Left Establishment surrendered this way. The assumption then was that "this, too, will pass". And it did, in 2020, thanks to COVID. But the Biden Interregnum is OVER. The PEOPLE WHO RUN THINGS don't treat 2025 as an abberation. They expect/fear that Trump will be followed by someone just as bad -- and they're right!
"We need to get back to our roots". Like it wasn't Zuckerberg approving the draconian leftwing censorship for the last 7 years. Or kicked Trump off facebook in 2021. Or helped finance the Democrats in 2020 or 2024.
Anyway "he's now an OK guy" - say the gullible rubes.
Refreshing point of view.
"While Republicans largely cheered Meta’s announcement on Tuesday that it would effectively end its fact-checking program, several tech watchdog groups condemned the decision, warning of the potential for a surge in disinformation.
Nicole Gill, executive director of Accountable Tech, said in a statement that the decision was “a gift to Donald Trump and extremists around the world.” Meta, she cautioned, was inviting “the exact same surge of hate, disinformation and conspiracy theories” that fueled the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
He's got that Napoleon Dynamite look down.
Has anybody ever seen Zuck and Dan Shaughnessy in the same room?
Forgive us if we feel a little bit like we have seen this before, like in Lucyfer and the football from Charlie Brown.
Nobody on the right cares about the Left's hurt feeeewwwings.
Doesn't the bile burn your throat after a while? Bitter, bitter bile.
As I understand how they work on X, people can offer notes to be added to a post which are then up or down voted by other readers of the same post. If a note reaches a critical mass of up votes (not sure how that's determined) then the note becomes visible to anyone reading the post.
As far as I know, the community notes on X are offered and voted on anonymously.
Austin - Never! Add Midland/Odessa and Ft Stockton to candidate list.
Rich wouldn't have brought it up unless he was getting thin on top.
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