What Mark Zuckerberg’s New Misinfo Policy Means For Internet Freedom; The Disinformation Complex: Dismantled At Last?

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Mark Zuckerberg announces that Meta will end its fact-checking policy: could it signal the end of the "disinformation" complex that has censored social media platforms for years? Plus: An overview of Meta's history of silencing Pro-Palestinian views. ----------- Watch full episodes on Rumble, streamed LIVE 7pm ET. Become part of our Locals community Follow Glenn: Twitter Instagram Follow System Update: Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.9	insurrection day yesterday. I know we did here. Welcome to a new episode of System Update,
0:53.5	our live nightly show
0:54.7	that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech
1:00.4	alternative to YouTube. Tonight, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of META, made an extraordinary
1:06.4	announcement today on behalf of the two social media giants, his company controls, Facebook
1:10.9	and Instagram. That announcement had many components, and all of them, took direct aim at the
1:16.6	censorship industrial complex that was created by governments and funded by neoliberal billionaires
1:21.3	after 2016 in order to control political speech on the internet. The newly announced policy is
1:27.0	also a bomb that was placed and then detonated at the heart
1:31.3	of the fraudulent industry that calls itself disinformation experts.
1:35.3	People who have somehow proclaimed that they are uniquely able to discern truth and falsity
1:40.3	with such authoritativeness, such certainty that their decrees must define the limits of permissible
1:46.2	speech online by others.
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