Several leftist politicians and legacy news outlets are losing their marbles after Meta announced it would reverse some censorship policies.
Democrat congressmen and leftist media outlets joined in wailing over the horror of Meta allowing more free speech on its platforms, including by lifting some restrictions on certain topics and redoing its fact-checking program. Anti-free speech leftists asserted that disaster will follow now that some “social media companies don’t stop disinformation,” as Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) put it.
The New York Times and CBS were two leftist media outlets that sided with the third-party fact-checkers Meta canned. “Meta Says Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Rule That False,” was The Times’s self-satirizing headline. CBS News was equally irrational about the free speech change, trumpeting it in a headline. “Mark Zuckerberg says ending fact-checks will curb censorship. Fact-checkers say he's wrong.”.
Meanwhile, Politico seriously pontificated, “How bad IS disinfo? Meta forces a question.” The Verge and NBC were more extreme. “Meta is leaving its users to wade through hate and disinformation,” The Verge screeched. NBC News was equally hysterical: “How Zuckerberg’s fact-checking rollback could usher in a new, chaotic era for social media.”
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Nor were leftist media the only ones predicting doom without more censorship, following what MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough whined were “troubling” changes. In fact, after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg cited the pro-free speech attitude of the incoming Trump administration versus the outgoing Biden administration in his announcement, the same politicians who didn’t seem to disapprove of Big Tech bowing to Joe Biden are now claiming the companies are bowing to Donald Trump.
Jayapal sobbed over reduced censorship on Facebook, Instagram and other Meta platforms. “This is just genuflecting to Donald Trump, that’s what this is. I’ve already had a lot of concerns about how social media companies don’t stop disinformation. I think this is just continuing that,” she gibbered, according to The Hill.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was particularly critical of Meta’s decision to replace its fact-checking program. “It obviously allows for greater proliferation of disinformation and propaganda,” he claimed, as noted by the outlet. “This has been the right-wing agenda for several years, to put pressure on the private social media-tech companies to abandon fact-checking.”
Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) made the mystifying claim that online free speech threatens the free press. “It’s clear that in this Donald Trump era … they’re paying particular attention that the incoming administration does not care if what you spread is truthful or not. And that should be a problem to all of us who care about a free press, who care about … honesty, integrity, the rule of law, and in trusting information that you’re reading,” he blathered.
Contrary to these cynical grievances, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell excitedly declared, “Today, we—you and I, and everyone who is part of the MRC family and the conservative movement—should celebrate a massive victory.”
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