Source: Persuasion
by Jacob Mchangama
“There are certainly reasons to be cynical of the timing of and motivation behind Zuckerberg’s announcement, which seems carefully designed to placate and curry favor with the incoming Trump administration. Trump after all threatened Zuckerberg with prison and has long claimed that Big Tech — not least Facebook — has an anti-conservative agenda censoring people on the right. Yet, if we set aside the political maneuvering and corporate self-preservation behind Zuckerberg’s pivot, the announced policy changes represent a promising shift that could significantly enhance the practical exercise of online free speech. The benefits, however, hinge on Meta resisting co-optation by the very political movement these policies appear designed to appease.” (01/09/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-mourn-the-fact-checkers