ENDING “FACEBOOK JAIL”
Zuckerberg, like a number of different tech leaders, has met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida forward of his Jan 20 inauguration.
Meta has made strikes in latest days which are more likely to please Trump’s group, corresponding to appointing former Republican official Joel Kaplan to move up public affairs on the firm.
He takes over from Nick Clegg, a former British deputy prime minister.
Zuckerberg additionally named Final Combating Championship (UFC) head Dana White, an in depth ally of Trump, to the Meta board.
Kaplan, in a press release Tuesday, insisted the corporate’s method to content material moderation had “gone too far”.
“An excessive amount of innocent content material will get censored, too many individuals discover themselves wrongly locked up in ‘Fb jail,'” he mentioned.
As a part of the overhaul, Meta mentioned it would relocate its belief and security groups from liberal California to extra conservative Texas.
“That can assist us construct belief to do that work in locations the place there may be much less concern concerning the bias of our groups,” Zuckerberg mentioned.
Zuckerberg additionally took a shot on the European Union “that has an ever-increasing variety of legal guidelines institutionalising censorship and making it troublesome to construct something modern there”.
The comment referred to new legal guidelines in Europe that require Meta and different main platforms to take care of content material moderation requirements or threat hefty fines.
Zuckerberg mentioned that Meta would “work with President Trump to push again towards international governments going after American firms to censor extra.”
Moreover, Meta introduced it could reverse its 2021 coverage of decreasing political content material throughout its platforms.
