I read this story and thought it was interesting. Essentially it’s saying that Zuck’s recent changes to Meta moderation are almost certainly a response to Republican pressure, despite what Zuck claims.

I noticed that they disabled the comments on this story, while most stories have comments enabled. I guess they don’t want a lot of angry comments from Trump supporters.

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    6 hours ago

    You could lie about Joe Rogan to Joe Rogan’s face. He’ll even nod his empty bald little head while you do it before taking another toke and injecting ivermectin into his eyeballs or something

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    They were interviewing a dude from the oversight panel on NPR. He said, after being asked if it was due to the election:

    MCCONNELL: Well, I’m now speaking just for myself. This is not the oversight board speaking, but I do think that there’s bad optics here, that it looks like and may be even the reality - I don’t know. But it certainly looks like this is buckling to political pressure. I would have liked to have seen these reforms laid out, you know, in more - in less contentious and partisan times so that they would be considered on the merits rather than looking like this is - you know, Donald Trump is president, and now they’re caving.

    https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5253069/meta-oversight-board-co-chair-responds-to-companys-decision-to-end-fact-checking

    Edit: grabbed actual source and quote instead of from memory

    There are some other gems in there