Mark Zuckerberg Faces Backlash Against Free Speech from Meta Workers and Facebook ‘Supreme Court’

Breitbart News recently reported that in a significant shift in content moderation strategy, Meta has announced sweeping changes to what content is allowed on its platforms and how it is moderated. The decision, which aims to prioritize free expression and scrap its extremely biased third-party “fact checker” program, has faced a backlash from his employees and the co-chair of Meta’s independent oversight board, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.


Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Thorning-Schmidt, a former Prime Minister of Denmark, expressed her reservations about the potential impact of these changes. While she welcomed certain aspects of the shake-up, such as the introduction of “community notes” that allow users to provide input on the accuracy of posts, she emphasized that there were “huge problems” with the overall announcement.

Thorning-Schmidt highlighted what she considers the risks to the LGBTQ+ community, as well as gender and trans rights. She cautioned, “We are seeing many instances where hate speech can lead to real-life harm, so we will be watching that space very carefully.”

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