Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Meta is super-duper apologetic for censoring its political enemies for years on end. He promises to do better because his tech behemoth is actually a huge fan of free expression … They’ve just made a few “mistakes.”
That’s about as sincere as Meta’s PR blitz got, with Zuckerberg pointing the finger at pretty much everybody — legacy media, “complex” and “automated systems,” “filters,” political “movements,” the state of California, the U.S. government, experts, and third-party fact-checkers — except himself.
“The problem with complex systems is they make mistakes,” Zuckerberg apologized rationalized in a video message. “After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased.”
Many conservatives seem tickled at the thought of the second coming of Elon, savior of free speech. But color me more skeptical and enraged. I’m sure Zuckerberg’s sudden change of heart has nothing to do with Donald Trump getting ready to retake office after Zuckerberg banned him from Facebook and rigged the 2020 election against him …
If Meta follows through on its promises, the country will undoubtedly benefit. Moving tech employees from California to Texas sounds like an improvement. Accounts not being nuked for calling a man a man and a woman a woman is objectively good and long overdue, even if it’s the bare minimum a social media site can do. […]
— Read More: thefederalist.com
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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JD Rucker
