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META MAKES A MOVE: Zuckerberg Announces Policy Overhaul, Commitment to ‘Free Expression’ on Facebook and Instagram [WATCH]

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On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that social media platforms Facebook and Instagram would undergo an overhaul to bring free expression back to the forefront of the user experience.

Zuckerberg laid out the plan in a 5-minute video shared on social media channels.

“We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said. “More specifically, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”

“We’re also going to tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before taking down content,” he added. “The reality is that this is a trade off. It means 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.”

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“We built a lot of complex systems to moderate content, but the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes,” Zuckerberg said. “Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that’s millions of people, and we’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship.”

“The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech,” Zuckerberg said.

The Meta CEO also signaled he will be coordinating with President-elect Donald Trump.

“We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” he said, adding that various countries have cracked down on certain speech online.

“The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the U.S. government, and that’s why it’s been so difficult over the past four years, when even the U.S. government has pushed for censorship,” Zuckerberg added. “By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further.”


From NBC News:

In the last several years, the government’s interactions with social media companies have come under intense scrutiny from Republican politicians who have made claims of censorship. After the 2016 election, Meta and other social media companies ramped up moderation efforts and routinely met with representatives of the FBI and other governmental organizations to prevent foreign interference. As Republicans began to inquire about government interactions with social media platforms, those meetings became the subject of congressional inquiries led by conservative leaders such as Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

In 2022, Zuckerberg defended the company’s interactions with agencies such as the FBI, calling it a “legitimate institution” in an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan.


Watch Zuckerberg’s video message below:

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