Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to Facebook and Instagram, shifting the platforms towards 'free expression' and mirroring Elon Musk's approach to content moderation on X (formerly Twitter). Meta will reduce censorship, lift restrictions on controversial topics, and bring back political content recommendations.
Remember when Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were going to fight each other in a cage match, after Zuckerberg launched"Threads" a couple of years ago? It wasn't just their physical prowess being tested, it was also a symbolic battle between the tech world's Left and Right." have become proxies for a lot of civic, political, social issues," one professor
Meta will also be getting rid of restrictions on topics like gender and immigration that"have become out of step with mainstream discourse," Zuckerberg said. Its filters will now focus primarily on"illegal and high-security violations" instead of hot-button social issues."By dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms," Zuckerberg added.
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