Mark Zuckerberg announces incredible new commitment to freedom of speech

Facebook and Instagram will no longer clamp down on wrongthink.

In entirely unexpected, but welcome news, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that Facebook and Instagram will now prioritise free expression.

Rather than simply pay lip service to the idea, Zuckerberg has outlined—in rather emphatic fashion—just exactly what he intends to do. You can watch the video below:

Some key points:

📌'Fact-checkers' are too politically biased and will be replaced by a community notes function, similar to ‘X’.

📌 They are going to get rid of "out of touch" restrictions on discussing topics like 'immigration' and 'gender'.

📌 Political content will no longer have its visibility reduced.

📌 The trust and safety team will be moved from California to Texas to combat perception of political bias.

📌 They will work with President Trump to pushback on any foreign Governments that attempt to pressure American companies to censor content.

📌 Europe is noted for having "laws, institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there".

I always retain no small amount of cynicism when a large corporate entity pivots in this manner. I suspect it's less likely a new found commitment to principle, but rather an adjustment based on what is now good for business.

It seems the general public does not like to be told what they can say or think about certain issues, with ‘gender’ and ‘immigration’ being singled out here. It's now interesting to hear Zuckerberg essentially admit that his platform has been censoring people for what he now understands to be ‘mainstream’ opinions.

Either way, it cannot be denied that this is a very welcome development.

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments.