MRC President and Founder Brent Bozell commended Meta following a stunning announcement on free speech by the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Four years after the major social media platforms censored the then-President of the United States Donald Trump, Zuckerberg promised that Meta would “get rid of fact-checkers” at Facebook and Instagram. He also said that the platforms would majorly curtail the frequency and types of automated content moderation (censorship). And Zuckerberg also noted that the Meta platforms will allow more personalization regarding what users see in feeds, including again allowing political content to be seen. Bozell thanked Zuckerberg for taking this step after years of censorship and election interference on his platforms and called on other major platforms such as Google and TikTok to do the same.
“I commend Mark Zuckerberg for doing the right thing and enacting real, meaningful reforms to move Facebook closer to a platform for free speech. I know Mark has long believed that his company should strengthen freedom and democracy around the world. Today, he has taken a giant step toward helping to grow freedom everywhere,” Bozell said in a Jan. 7 post on X.
Bozell also commended Zuckerberg for acknowledging that Meta had made mistakes, noting that MRC Free Speech America has recorded 1,725 cases of censorship from Facebook, Instagram and Threads in its exclusive CensorTrack database.
Bozell went on to note that the Media Research Center and its allies in The Free Speech Alliance have fought for years to bring down the censorship regime at Meta. “Our years-long battle for free speech on the internet has finally borne fruit. I also want to thank my allies in the Free Speech Alliance and all the patriotic Americans who have stood with us for bringing about this great victory for free speech.”
The Free Speech Alliance has been steadily pushing for online free speech since 2018 when it got its first victory in the right direction. As described on the alliance’s website: "In April 2018, the Media Research Center released a groundbreaking report exposing efforts to censor conservatives and silence conservative speech from major online platforms. Our report was so impactful that US Representatives on the House Judiciary Committee cited it four separate times during a July 17, 2018 congressional hearing."
As Bozell noted, these efforts have now come to fruition. Zuckerberg not only acknowledged mistakes and promised to “get rid of fact-checkers” but also to annihilate “restrictions on topics like immigration and gender.” The Meta CEO even promised to move his “Trust and Safety” and “content moderation” teams from California and said that Meta’s “U.S.-based content review” team will work in Texas, away from authoritarian leftists like Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA).
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