Zuckerberg Ends Censorship on Facebook, Instagram
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking system on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and looking to adopt a community notes system following in the footsteps of X.
This push for more freedom of expression was announced in a video from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, where he noted the problems that were caused by an increase in censorship in recent years, and he also explained how he plans to work with the incoming Trump administration to push back against censorship pressure coming to the United States from Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will end its third-party fact-checking system and instead embrace community notes. |
| 0:09.0 | Meta and their announcement also stated they are planning to allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse. |
| 0:20.0 | And meanwhile, could the U.S. really take Greenland |
| 0:23.3 | and the Panama Canal? While Donald Trump is saying he cannot assure that military or economic |
| 0:29.7 | coercion would not be used to take control these two strategic locations. And also a bill that would |
| 0:36.4 | allow the DHS to detain criminal illegal immigrants and even |
| 0:41.2 | allow states to sue the federal government for failures in immigration enforcement was passed |
| 0:47.7 | by the House of Representatives. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, |
| 0:52.9 | and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 1:00.3 | Now folks, first off, online censorship could be coming to an end. Now, platforms on meta, |
| 1:07.7 | that's Facebook, Instagram, threads. The meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, he announced that the company is going to end its third-party |
| 1:15.7 | fact-checking system and instead embrace community notes. |
| 1:19.9 | And he said they want to do what they see on Elon Musk's X. |
| 1:23.5 | They are actually going to model it after that, where the community, you and I and others, |
| 1:29.3 | can actually leave notes on different posts and fact-check them ourselves. |
| 1:33.9 | No more institutional fact-checking. |
| 1:36.7 | And meta and their announcement also stated they are planning on to allow more speech |
| 1:42.0 | by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream |
| 1:45.2 | discourse and focusing their enforcement on illegal and high severity violations. Unless it violates |
| 1:52.6 | the law, it might not get pulled down. Now Zuckerberg posted a video on this yesterday, and he noted |
| 2:00.2 | the problems that were caused by the |
| 2:01.8 | censorship system that had been used previously, up until just now, actually. And he also explained |
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