Source: The American Prospect
by Nikolas Guggenberger & Francesca Procaccini
“On January 7, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that then-President Trump’s Facebook account would be indefinitely blocked because the president had condoned his supporters’ violent storming of the U.S. Capitol the day before. The president was a danger to democracy and the peaceful transfer of power, Zuckerberg declared. Four years later, also on January 7, Zuckerberg announced a reversal in Meta’s content moderation policies: Fact-checking would be replaced by community notes, and the algorithms that remove hate speech would be dialed back. Moderating content was censorship, he declared. Inadvertently, Zuckerberg had made the strongest case possible for breaking up Meta. Many reactions to Zuckerberg’s announcement focused on the wisdom of the new or old content moderation schemes. But the content moderation wars are beside the point.” (01/15/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-01-15-zuckerberg-proves-meta-is-too-big/