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No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA
Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.
Since Donald Trump won back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries have been engaging in an unseemly grovel-fest, making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago, shoveling million-dollar contributions to his inaugural fund, and meddling in the editorial departments of the publications they own in an apparent attempt to gain the new leader’s favor. In the last week alone, Zuckerberg replaced the departing Nick Clegg, the company’s former president of global affairs, with Joel Kaplan, a former GOP operative and clerk to the late Justice Anthony Scalia, who once urged Facebook to ignore misinformation during the 2016 election. In the years I followed the company closely, especially during the multiple conversations we had in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, I found him to be thoughtful and genuinely concerned about the impact that his policies had on users and society in general, even if many of his decisions wound up coming down on the side of maximizing profit, engagement, or growth, rather than comity.
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