Joel Kaplan, Meta’s president of Global Affairs told Fox News’ Fox and Friends program that they are doing away with fact-checking under the guise of freedom of expression, but it’s all about following in Musk’s footsteps while givcing free reign to liars and MAGA liars and peddlers of right-wing conspiracy theories.
Independent fact-checking is being removed from Facebook and the like because the MAGA cult led by Trump lie and spread conspiracies so often.
KAPLAN: Well, there’s no question that the things that happened at Meta are coming from Mark.
But there’s also no question that there has been a change over the last four years.
We saw a lot of societal and political pressure all in the direction of more content moderation, more censorship.
And we’ve got a real opportunity now. We’ve got a new administration and a new president coming in who are big defenders of free expression. And that makes a difference.
Free expression under the Trump administration means having the freedom to lie, corrupt, racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, while supporting White and Christian nationalism.
KAPLAN: One of the things we’ve experienced is that when you have a U.S. president administration that’s pushing for censorship, it just makes it open season for other governments around the world that don’t even have the protections of the First Amendment to really put pressure on U.S. companies.
