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28 April 2025
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Britain has launched a crackdown on "hyper-masculine" social media after digital watchdog Ofcom urged technology giants to go "above and beyond" the Online Safety Act in taking action against "misogyny influencers".
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.
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.
Trump's 2024 victory is panning out completely differently to 2016, when elite America spent four years battling him. "This time everybody wants to be my friend," notes the President-elect.
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.
Meta's new social media app and Twitter rival, Threads, promises a kinder, sanitised experience. But at what cost?
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