Meta is returning to free speech tradition, says Facebook's former chief privacy officer Chris Kelly (youtube.com)
Is it ‘a return to free speech tradition’? The current thing gets rid of the 3rd party fact checking program, it brings back political content, and it removes restrictions on talking about certain subjects like immigration and gender.
‘We never want to be the arbiter of truth. That’s a hard position to be in. But you have to make sure that your community doesn't decline into a cesspool of accusations all the time and the presentation of misinformation.' Zuckerberg noted the other day that even if 1% of the flagged speech was flagged unjustly (ie was censored for political or distaste reasons only) that's still too much, and is millions of people on Facebook.
‘More speech is the answer to difficult speech.’ He said the censoring of some speech, especially political, was possibly regretted at the company now.
Will advertisers stick with Facebook? Because now their ads may show up beside things they don't like, which was a big part of the headlines at the time Facebook became more censored.
It seems pretty possible Zuckerburg is just a simple person who doens't have a view, and if he doesn't have his own view, any superior force (government) should just pass through him more or less to the platform.