A late mea culpa: "After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy," Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said yesterday in a video posted to Facebook and a message posted to Threads. Referring to Meta's trust and safety team tasked with content moderation, he said: "We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth, but the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
"We've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship," said Zuckerberg, announcing sweeping changes: No more (partisan) fact-checkers (appointed from on high); a community notes system, akin to Elon Musk's approach at X, will replace the old. Certain content—topics like immigration and gender—will no longer be so restricted. And the trust and safety team will be relocated from California to Texas, which Zuckerberg claims "will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content" (as if Texas has no lefty tech employees).
