Mark Zuckerberg, free speech champion.

Right now Zuckerberg is on a PR tour of sorts trying to sway public opinion,

trying to present what he says are Facebook's values and principles at a time

when there is increasing scrutiny and increasing attention about the power and the

dangers of these social media platforms.

Zuckerberg is all over the place.

He was at Georgetown University giving a speech.

He's even doing his first ever Fox News interview. But there's a lot to unpack about what he's saying.

And journalist John Stanton says Zuckerberg is actually the antithesis of free speech.

All right, welcome to this week's Reliable Sources Podcast.

I'm your host Brian Stelter.

And this weekly podcast is our chance to go more in-depth with media leaders and newsmakers.

Talking about how the news gets made, how the media world

works and so much of the media world is influenced, powered, manipulated by big tech companies

like Facebook.

So let's talk about it with John Stanton.

He is the co-founder of the Save Journalism Project.

He's formerly the DC Bureau Chief for Buzzfeed.

And he has a lot to say about Zuckerberg's recent speech and

Facebook's recent public maneuverings. Hey John thanks for joining me. I'm glad to be

here. You have a really interesting story and I think we should start with that. You were laid off by Buzzfeed as part of one of these cutbacks that we've seen in digital media.

Buzzfeed went through a round of layoffs earlier this year.

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