Facebook Destroying Democracy To Help Trump - And Conning You About Free Speech
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Some of you may have, like myself, looked at how authoritarianism triumphed and democracy died |
| 0:05.6 | throughout history and wondered, how was it possible? How did so many people fail to take a stand? |
| 0:11.3 | And not only that, but how did so many who regarded themselves as moderate facilitate the rise of |
| 0:17.8 | tyranny? Because throughout history, those so-called moderates have played an absolutely crucial role. |
| 0:23.6 | But we are now living through it. So now you know, now you know. |
| 0:27.6 | A case in point. This morning I went on Sky News to discuss the proposed changes to the content moderation policies of Meta, |
| 0:36.6 | owned of course by Mark Zuckerberg, which runs |
| 0:39.8 | Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp threads. They're all part of the Meta Empire. Now, this is something |
| 0:43.9 | I'm particularly interested in. Last week, when it was announced that a Trump supporter was taking |
| 0:48.0 | over from slightly surreal, and it says what's happened in the last few years, Britain's former |
| 0:52.8 | deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, as Metz's head of policy. I pitched an article to The Guardian. Voter over the |
| 0:57.9 | weekend. It was published yesterday. Just as Mark Zuckerberg announced his changes to moderation |
| 1:03.8 | policies. The headline was to see how Trump will control the US media look at Victor Orban's |
| 1:09.8 | Hungary. I'm going to come on to that. |
| 1:11.6 | Now, the changes include getting rid of fact checkers in favour of a community note system. |
| 1:17.0 | They say this will dramatically reduce the amount of censorship. They will recommend more political |
| 1:22.1 | content. Some might go, seems reasonable enough to me. Well, let me unpick what's actually going |
| 1:27.2 | on here. And let's start theick what's actually going on here. |
| 1:27.7 | And let's start the discussion on Sky News with Claire Fox. She's someone who used to believe in a |
| 1:32.3 | extremely eccentric brand of revolutionary tootskyism, ended up as an ally of Nigel Farage. |
| 1:38.0 | She was a Brexit party member of the European Parliament and now sits as an unelected parliamentarian in the House of Lords. She began by |
| 1:46.4 | celebrating what she believes is the end of politically driven censorship and I responded. |
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