The late, great Andrew Breitbart was one of the most quotable conservatives of his era. “Walk toward the fire,” he exhorted his fellow activists. “Don’t worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks.

Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.

A new era is dawning at Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that third-party fact-checking organizations would no longer have the power to suppress disfavored speech on Facebook—a major, positive step toward restoring free expression and robust debate on the platform.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the move is an attempt to restore free expression on Meta's platforms. The pivot comes as Zuckerberg looks to build ties with the incoming Trump administration.

It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram,” Zuckerberg says in a video posted to Facebook this morning. Framing the issue as a debate from “the last several years,

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms.