A Look Back at Facebook's Censorship Era
The era of fact-checking is quickly coming to an end on Meta’s platforms — most prominently, Facebook and Instagram. It’s unclear whether censorship is gone for good — or whether it’ll just take another, more amorphous form.
For the moment, Mark Zuckerberg has been saying all the right words. The question is whether he can erase an ugly legacy of shadow-banning, throttling, and outright suppression.
On Jan. 7, in a video dropped in the early hours of the morning, Meta founder Zuckerberg announced that he was beginning the process of terminating his company’s relationship with “independent” fact checkers, a uniformly liberal gaggle of establishment media outlets and offshoots that held massive sway over what content got distributed and how widely since shortly after the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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