Hey guys. Friends, Normie's Pentrumen. Here we are on Normally, the show with Normalish

takes for When the News Gets Weird. I'm Mary Catherine Ham. And I am Carol Markowitz. Hi, Mary

Catherine. How is the Blizzard going? Oh, you know what? It's not just a Blizzard at our

house. It was a Blizzard plus Norovirus. So we're great. I'm recovering.

Everything's fine.

Oh, the worst.

You can't even enjoy that.

You can't even enjoy the day off.

Worst snow days ever.

Terrible.

We're recovering.

So yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg released a video saying that Facebook would no longer be participating in censorship,

which was odd because he had previously denied that Facebook was participating in censorship.

But, you know, I don't give them too much credit, but it absolutely, to keep using the phrase,

we've been using a vibe shift.

It is an absolute vibe shift that Mark Zuckerberg released this video.

And we're going to play a clip from it.

I wanted to even play the whole thing, but maybe that's too much.

But here's a clip from it where he talks about some of the changes that Facebook will be making.

But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes. Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that's millions of people. And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.

The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.

So we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes,

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