Mark Zuckerberg is acting a lot like Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg increasingly looks like he’s trying to channel his longtime nemesis Elon Musk. This morning on Threads he announced a series of efforts supposedly meant to encourage free speech on his social-media platforms (read: ingratiate himself with President-elect Donald Trump).
These include:
Replacing independent third-party fact-checkers in the US on Meta’s social-media platforms with Community Notes, where users will rate and comment on information, much like on Musk’s X.
Simplifying moderation policies and removing restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are “out of touch with mainstream discourse.”
Focusing enforcement mostly on “illegal and high-severity violations.”
Zuckerberg is even taking an exact page out of the Tesla CEO’s playbook by moving his remaining safety and moderation teams from California to Texas due to concerns that “biased employees are overly censoring content.”
Zuck also said (without explanation) that his companies would work with Trump “to push back against foreign governments going after American companies to censor more.”
These include:
Replacing independent third-party fact-checkers in the US on Meta’s social-media platforms with Community Notes, where users will rate and comment on information, much like on Musk’s X.
Simplifying moderation policies and removing restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are “out of touch with mainstream discourse.”
Focusing enforcement mostly on “illegal and high-severity violations.”
Zuckerberg is even taking an exact page out of the Tesla CEO’s playbook by moving his remaining safety and moderation teams from California to Texas due to concerns that “biased employees are overly censoring content.”
Zuck also said (without explanation) that his companies would work with Trump “to push back against foreign governments going after American companies to censor more.”
