I have to commend Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his new head of policy, Joel Kaplan, for their time. It’s not too surprising that, as the pair announced this morning, the meta Omitting professional third-party fact-checkingHas been the operator of Facebook, Instagram and Threads supporting abstinence More recently, fact-checking has always been controversial. But it would probably be wise to do so two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office — and to nominate the head of a Federal Communications Commission who threatened the company for it.
Trump’s pick for FCC chair (and current FCC Commissioner), Brendan Carr, is a self-identified free speech defender. creative interpretation Of the First Amendment. In mid-November, as part of a flurry of mildly dangerous missiles For various institutions, care sent a letter Meta is attacking the fact-checking programs of Apple, Google and Microsoft companies.
The paper focused primarily on Newsgaard, a conservative staunch opponent of Meta. doesn’t really work togetherBut it also demanded information about “the use of any media monitor or fact-checking service” and left them in no doubt about Carr’s status. “You participated in a…
