The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar charity – has scrapped its diversity team and cancelled funding for projects promoting inclusivity as the Great Unwokening gains pace.
A former Royal Marine was put on trial for ‘stirring up racial hatred’ after a Facebook post in which he urged people to protest peacefully about illegal immigration. It took a jury 17 minutes to find him not guilty.
Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, this week Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy or to end it. But how far is he really going in his new commitment to free speech, asks Rebekah Barnett.
Mark Zuckerberg's repudiation of Covid-era censorship is welcome. But it's not enough, say Josh Stylman and Jeffrey Tucker. Without a public reckoning they will just do it all again when a cause seems urgent enough.
Facebook is to scrap its fact-checkers after Mark Zuckerberg said they have "been too politically biased and destroyed more trust than they've created" as he pledged to "restore free expression" on the social network.
Zuckerberg's confession of censorship under government pressure skips the part where Facebook planned to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story two months before the New York Post broke it, says Andrew Lowenthal.
What was so startling about Mark Zuckerberg's confession that Facebook was censoring content at the behest of the Biden Administration was not what he admitted but that he admitted it, says Jeffrey Tucker. So, why now?
Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration.
Richard Dawkins's Facebook account has been deleted after he posted that genetically male boxers should not fight women. Could anything sum up more perfectly the dire state of free speech today?
Climate: The Movie is the latest victim of Facebook's troubling reliance on biased fact-checking groups like Science Feedback, says Andy May.
