Incredible: Brian Stelter Attacks Elon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg For Committing To Free Speech

Posted • January 7, 2025: Facebook, or Meta, announced sweeping changes on its platform, which did not sit well with the liberal media. For starters, the left-wing fact-checkers held on this platform will be virtually erased. Mark Zuckerberg announced these intentions today when he admitted content moderation had gone off the reservation. Fact checks will be replaced by something similar to community notes on Twitter. This is just incredible. Brian Stelter is attacking Elon and Zuckerberg for committing to free speech. He says Zuckerberg’s announcement is a “MAGA makeover” and will turn away liberals. For years Conservatives were censored and silenced by big tech. Democrats can’t stand that we’re not being censored anymore. They can’t operate in a free speech environment because their views don’t hold up to scrutiny.

It’s another blow to the legacy media. CNN’s Brian Stelter lamented that this means more freedom of speech and expression on Facebook, while other fact-checkers voiced disappointment. How more free speech will hurt users is absurd. You can be wrong. You can have nutty theories. This notion that the media and the Left must control speech for it to be safe is in itself creepy. -- Brian Stelter @brianstelter: “Big picture: Mark Zuckerberg just announced sweeping changes to the social internet, all in line with the desires of President Trump and Trump voters. Out with the fact-checkers that conservatives deride. In with more permissive rules for posting conservative opinions.” -- I can't believe he posted that, by the way. Also, the answer is no one: Brian Stelter @brianstelter: “So the question is: How many users will miss the fact-checkers when they're gone?” (…)

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