Zuckerberg Declares War on Censorship

By Ken Klippenstein

Mark Zuckerberg announced his plan for “restoring free expression on our platforms,” going as far as saying “the US government has pushed for censorship.” A review of Meta’s newly updated policies, however, reveals that the changes are largely cosmetic. Many continue to evince the same deference to government wishes that Zuckerberg claims to be fighting against, like Meta’s ongoing blanket ban on “information obtained from hacked sources” regardless of whether it’s newsworthy.

Far from an abstract concern, policies like these actively deprive the public of news. When I published the hacked research dossier on Senator Marco Rubio last year, Meta suspended all links to the article after receiving a notification from the FBI, as I reported at the time. And when I published a similarly hacked dossier about then-VP candidate JD Vance, resulting in a visit from an FBI agent, it may have violated Meta’s policies to even report that agent’s name. That’s thanks to Meta’s still-active ban on content “Outing the undercover status of law enforcement, military or security personnel…”

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Source: kenklippenstein.com