The air of lament in New York Times columnist Kevin Roose’s article on Wednesday over Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand to the “right” and the proclaimed end to the social media company’s censorship policies was palatable.
“For years, Mark Zuckerberg tried to keep his social networks above the fray of partisan politics,” Roose began, downplaying the wave of censorship of posts on the platform over Hunter Biden’s laptop as well as COVID-19 era stories.
“Given the headaches associated with running his” multiple companies, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, “the last thing Mr. Zuckerberg wanted was to become too enmeshed with actual governments — the kind that could use the force of law to demand that he censor certain voices, thumb the scale on politically sensitive topics, or threaten to throw Meta executives in jail for noncompliance.”
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