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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

How Censorship Was Forced On Facebook

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Censorship programs were forced onto Facebook and Instagram through outside pressure, said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who provided the details during an interview with Joe Rogan. Zuckerberg explained how programs for content moderation transformed into large-scale censorship systems after the COVID-19 outbreak. This ties in with his recent announcement that Meta will be ending these censorship practices, and working with the incoming Trump administration to push for freedom of expression globally.

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0:00.0

Censorship programs were forced onto Facebook and Instagram through outside pressure.

0:06.1

That's according to META CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

0:08.6

He revealed how the programs for content moderation transformed into large-scale censorship

0:14.3

programs beginning in 2016, but especially after the COVID-19 outbreak.

0:20.8

In other news, the fires in California are bringing attention to the state's but especially after the COVID-19 outbreak.

0:26.6

In other news, the fires in California are bringing attention to the state's programs to regulate water,

0:30.8

especially as fire hydrants were empty when firefighters went to use them.

0:40.3

And it now turns out that the main L.A. reservoir was empty and offline when the fires started. Meanwhile, with about a week to go until Trump's inauguration and with his campaign promise to begin mass deportations on day one of his

0:46.2

administration, a large group of illegal immigrants just got an extension of their protected status

0:52.6

for being in this country.

0:59.6

I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

1:10.3

All right, first off, folks, censorship programs, a lot of them online right now allegedly these were forced onto

1:13.6

Facebook and Instagram through outside pressure government agencies in the US and in many other

1:18.8

countries around the world met as CEO Mark Zuckerberg he detailed this during an interview

1:23.9

with Joe Rogan and he explained how the programs for quote unquote content moderation

1:29.4

transformed from just, you know, smaller things,

1:32.6

looking for criminal content to just mass censorship programs,

1:37.3

going after even true information,

1:39.9

especially after the COVID-19 outbreak.

1:42.5

And this ties in with his recent announcement that meta

1:45.1

will be ending these practices. Meta means, of course, Facebook, Instagram, and threads. And he's

1:52.0

also going to work with the Trump administration once they come into office to push for freedom

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