Andrew Breitbart, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Two-Way Politics-Culture Street
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.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Political Evolution, From Apologies to No More Apologies
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.
Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Trump gamble pay off?
I t feels like we’re in a new era now,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, as he announced sweeping changes to the firm’s social-media platforms in a video on January 7th. Two weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration,
Why Has Mark Zuckerberg Copied Elon Musk?
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.
Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook's Rogue Fact-Checkers
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.
Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram
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.
Apparently, fact-checking is now too political for Facebook
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,
Mark Zuckerberg vows to 'restore free expression' as Meta ends fact-checking programs
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Speech Mea Culpa
As Biden leaves office, Meta drops its censorship regime.
Mea Culpa: The Japanese knotweed of weather reporting
Take an imperial inch: Talking of which, Iain Brodie apologised for drawing my attention to the use of the phrase “metric ...
Zuck Finds His Spine
A late mea culpa: "After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a ...
Column: Mea culpa: I got some things wrong in 2024. At least I hope I did
A column is a recurring opportunity to err in plain sight, then repent, Doyle McManus says. Election years offer extra ...
Don’t let Facebook off the hook for its pro-censorship past so easily
In a video posted Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is going to get rid of its third-party ...
Mea Culpa: A time to mend
The use of “phenomenons” is itself a bit of a phenomenon. It is not incorrect, according to some sources, but it is uncommon: ...
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A mea culpa to Trump? Companies give to the President-elect's inauguration
A Wall Street Journal report shows that many of the companies that paused political donations in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021 ...
Macron acknowledges error on early elections in New Year's speech
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he recognised that his decision to call early parliamentary elections in ...