Well, folks, Donald Trump is not yet president and the world is changing in dramatic, dramatic ways.

This morning, Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meadow, which of course is the parent company of Facebook, as well as Instagram, made a huge announcement.

Facebook, he said, is now going to be reversing its censorship policies.

This is enormous.

Facebook has absolutely crushed, I mean crushed conservative media

on the platform over the course of the last several years. We know this personally over at the

Daily Wire. I was the number one Facebook page of all Facebook pages on the platform in 2020.

In 2021, something happened, something shifted. And in 2021,

our impressions from my personal page, for example, which was again, maybe the most prominent

page on Facebook, we went from, I'm not kidding you, one billion impressions a month,

we went from that to less than 100 million impressions a month.

90% reduction in impressions in reach. And that was a deliberate move by Facebook to crush

political content on the platform in 2021. And now Mark Zuckerberg is reversing all of that.

I want to get to what he is doing, what the policies actually look like in a second.

I want to begin with the timeline.

Because to understand what has been unfolding over at Facebook,

you really have to understand more broadly what has been unfolding in America around the issues of free speech.

In 2016, things fundamentally changed.

They fundamentally changed when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. Up until 2016, social media had widely been perceived by the left as a

large overall good that social media was a way for people to network with each other, for political

content to be distributed to a broader audience. In fact, the Obama 2012 campaign had received all sorts

of plaudits for its magical use of Facebook in getting people out to vote in 2012. And then

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