decided not to and make the social network available as a platform for the extreme right.
There are two possible explanations for the change: either Zuckerberg is scared or he is corrupt. They can be true at the same time.
In the first hypothesis, Zuckerberg and other billionaires fear retaliation from Trump if they do not donate money, or if they do not do the government’s bidding. In the second hypothesis, Silicon Valley realized that it will make money (by regulating networks, or cryptocurrencies, or with protectionism against Chinese competition) by having allied itself with Trump, and decided to go after a similar little mouth.
The headline is one of two: Zuckerberg thinks Trump is a dictator or Zuckerberg thinks Trump is corrupt. Freedom of expression is not the issue here.
The tone of the statement leaves no doubt: the Facebook billionaire is trying to suck up to . He used the same terms as the far right to attack the professional media and the fact checkers who worked under his instructions until the day before.
In the era where Zuckerberg authorized disinformation, there are only issues dear to the right: immigration and gender. In a not-so-subtle way, Facebook will move its content moderators from progressive California to conservative Texas. Not even the harmless themes for the Facebook app that celebrated gender equality escaped: .
If Zuckerberg acted in the name of freedom of expression, he could also have made gestures in favor of the far left: for example, declaring campaigns to kill American health plan CEOs as legitimate. The evidence suggests that this cause would excite many more Americans than the right to call transgender people sick.
I would be against it. I think there need to be barriers against extremism in public debate. But Zuckerberg just said this is censorship.
Come on, Marquito, also defend the freedom of people to organize the murder of people like you.
After all, you and your friend Musk defend the right of Bolsonarists to organize the murder of people like me.
His lie about “secret cuts” echoes the claim of the Brazilian extreme right about the STF’s actions against Bolsonaro’s coup plotters. One, whose results have been public for a long time, showed why Bolsonarists wanted access to social media during the 2022 election: to spread the lie that there was fraud in electronic voting machines. The investigation even proved that Bolsonaro and his allies at the polls. With the argument of fraud, they tried to carry out a coup to kill Brazilian democracy.
If the coup had succeeded, I and everyone who opposed Bolsonaro’s authoritarianism would be dead. Musk would be in favor of this. Zuckerberg probably just wouldn’t mind as long as his taxes stayed low.
And for those who wrote a column treating this story as a debate about principles, freedom, these things, I suggest that next time you hire a fact checker.
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