Mark Zuckerberg endures censorship on FB

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and owner of Meta, which provides services specified as Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, published a video message via FB. In this way, he announced the fresh policies of Meta's operator, concerning the fight against misinformation, and between the lines - against the panic of "political correctness".

- I'm sorry. It is time to return to our roots of free expression.... Facts verifiers proved besides politically biased and alternatively ruined trust than built it, especially in the United States," Zuckerberg announced. Much indicates that this decision was influenced by Donald Trump's triumph in the presidential election, as well as Elon Musk, owner of the X portal, which stands alongside the president-elect.

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Left: Mark Zuckerberg, right: Elon Musk
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It is time to return to our roots of free expression on Facebook and Instagram - announced Mark Zuckerberg, founder and owner of Facebook.

I started building social media to give people a voice. 5 years ago, in a speech in Georgetown, I spoke about the importance of freedom of speech. I inactive believe that today. But a lot has happened in the last fewer years. A broad debate over the media on the harmfulness of online content has rolled through. Government and conventional media pressured on censorship more and more

– pointed out the guilty Zuckerberg, placing himself in the position of the forew of freedom of speech.

As he pointed out in his further part of his statement, although much of censorship had a policy behind it, it was right to counter negative content specified as drugs, terrorism or kid abuse. As the founder of Facebook assured, these issues he and his colleagues took "very seriously", and Zuckerberg himself wanted to make certain that his business was handling specified a liable task.



Yes Mark Zuckerberg translates censorship into FB

Facebook's boss has been accused over the past fewer years that the social media belonging to him has been effectively denying the public discussion the right side of the debate. In January 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he was blocking Donald Trump's accounts on FB and Instagram "indefinitely". It was no accident that this coincided with the win in the presidential election of Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate, Zuckerberg, did not like the posts of the then outgoing president.

As far as the Polish backyard is concerned, in 2022 Facebook removed a dynamic Confederate website from its resources.

We have built many complex content moderation systems. However, the problem with complex systems is that they make mistakes. Even if they accidentally censor even 1% of posts, it is millions of people. We reached a point where there were just besides many mistakes and besides many censorship. The fresh elections besides proved to be a cultural turning point for re-priorising freedom of expression. So we go back to our roots, we focus on reducing mistakes, we simplify our policies, and we reconstruct freedom of expression on our platforms.

– Zuckerberg explained not so much that the policy of censorship of content has simply ceased to work.

Today Zuckerberg announces that he will work with Donald Trump to avoid situations specified as the last 4 years erstwhile even the American government has been pushing for censorship from companies," said Meta's chief. The issue of "censor pressure" on him and another companies from the erstwhile government administration Zuckerberg raised respective times in his video.

How will Facebook and Instagram change?

As Zuckerberg further explained, as part of a fresh approach to combating disinformation on Facebook or Instagram, he decided to quit the fact-checking policy and replace it with the community commentaries (Community Notes), which for any time had successfully introduced Elon Musk in his own social networking portal X. This is simply a large change, due to the fact that Musk never said he was against social media and media censorship. English-speaking services compose straight about "complete copy" and "imitation", calling Zuckerberg's decision.
In 2016, erstwhile Donald Trump won the presidential election, conventional media wrote nonstop about how disinformation could endanger democracy. In good faith, we tried to take care of things without prejudging what is true. However, facts verifiers proved besides politically biased and alternatively ruined trust alternatively than built it, especially in the United States

Zuckerberg pointed out the guilty of all censorship.

Zuckerberg further announced a simplification of Instagram and Facebook posts policy. He stated that he would get free of parts of the regulations related to content about immigration or gender, which "just do not keep up with mainstream discussion". As Zuckerberg pointed out in his statement, it was a way of silencing people and excluding them from public discussion.
This has gone besides far.

– recognized the founder of Facebook.

Zuckerberg further announced that content filters, so far focused on catching content violating the policies adopted by Meta-owned platforms, would focus on catching content openly illegal and severely violating the rules adopted by the community. Zuckerberg decided to trust users and their assessment, which means that more attention will be paid to the strategy of reporting inappropriate content displayed to the recipients.

Moreover, there will be more political and activism content on the FB, as users of this social platform frequently reported their willingness to learn about specified content. In addition, Meta has besides decided to place a content moderator squad in Texas alternatively than in California so far, which aims to limit the bias of its staff. Let us clarify: California is simply a bastion of Democrats, considered to be 1 of the more left-wing states in the US, and Texas - traditionally associated with Republicans - became synonymous with conservative and right-wing values in common perception.