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Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern,

exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, on Sunday, Facebook founder and META CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a set of new

social policies designed to eliminate or at least reduce the censorship of political speech

on META's platforms.

Also to banish the fraudulent disinformation and fact-checking industry from its association with Facebook, Instagram, and threads,

and have them replaced with the community notes that X uses.

And in general, he sought to warn the world about the dangers of the growing censorship industrial complex in the West.

We covered this announcement in quite a lot of detail on Monday night, as well as the fallout

from it, including the many reasons to view Zuckerberg's announcement with great skepticism,

given his own history in long imposing and aggressively defending exactly the sort of political censorship that,

with Trump's inauguration now looming, he now suddenly condemns.

That skepticism is undoubtedly warranted, but it should not distract from, because it does not

minimize the true shockwaves, fear, and anger that this announcement generated around

the West, particularly in those countries that are most devoted to building their censorship regime online from the EU and the UK to Canada and Brazil.

Americans are understandably focused on the multi-day still uncontrolled fires that are ravaging much of Los Angeles.

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