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Meta’s fact-checking changes are just what Trump’s FCC head asked for
Nice liability shield you’ve got there.
In mid-November, as part of a flurry of lightly menacing missives to various entities, Carr sent a letter to Meta, Apple, Google, and Microsoft attacking the companies’ fact-checking programs. “You participated in a censorship cartel that included not only technology and social media companies but advertising, marketing, and so-called “fact checking” organizations,” Carr wrote. If you’re also wondering what the big deal is, this is almost textbook jawboning: a form of soft government censorship that Carr and other Republicans have railed against their political opponents for (allegedly, and according to the Supreme Court, probably not actually) performing.
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