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This is a case of kissing the ring,
said tech analyst Carolina Milanesi
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The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously,
Zuckerberg wrote at the time
Remember that a few years ago, [the social media platforms] all kicked President Trump off the platform. Now, they’re all going to Mar-a-Lago to visit with him because they know like this Trump administration is pro-First Amendment, and pro-free speech, and so it’s a dramatic change,
Jordan said
Our government works best when the life experiences of the American people are represented,
Pettersen said in a statementWould all this be happening if Trump didn’t get elected? Nobody knows,
the lobbyist said
We’re looking forward, not backward,
said House Minority Leader Hakeem JeffriesSenior leadership of McConnell’s personal office will remain: Chief of Staff Terry Carmack, Communications Director Robert Steurer, Press Secretary Stephanie Penn, Speechwriter Sophia Slacik, and Legislative Assistants Andrew Fisher, Dominic Travis, Richard St. Onge, and Will Clark.”
The release addsAfter Trump first got elected in 2016, ... the legacy media wrote non-stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.”
he said
The policy change is a tactic to earn favor with the incoming administration while also reducing business costs related to content moderation,
said Ben Leiner, a lecturer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business who studies political and technology trends
I shudder to think what these changes will mean for our youth, Meta is abdicating their responsibility to safety, and we won’t the impact of these changes because Meta refuses to be transparent about the harms teenagers experience, and they go to extraordinary lengths to dilute or stop legislation that could help,
he saidThere's potentially a bit of billionaire jealousy,
said Andrew Selepak, media professor at the University of Florida
I t feels like we’re in a new era now,
said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, as he announced sweeping changes to the firm’s social-media platforms in a video on January 7th
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This is –– Russia is the role model. We are becoming more like Russia every day, that's where we are,
Galloway saidWith this decision, the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg gets kind of a two-fer,
Galloway saidMark Zuckerberg owns 15 percent of the company, so you have what is effectively a get-out-of jail-card potentially from someone who appears to be an oligarch threatening to put people in jail and add $15 to $20 billion to his net worth,
he addedThe greatest trade of 2024 –– it wasn't Bitcoin, it wasn't Nvidia -- it was Elon Musk investing a quarter of a billion dollars directly into the Trump campaign,
he saidMark is a very centrist executive. He’s not a partisan either way.” ... But he has a cadre of professional political advisers and executives that have Republican profiles that are ascendant in the company.”
A Meta insider said ... The person added
Zuck’s announcement is a full bending of the knee to Trump and an attempt to catch up to Musk in his race to the bottom,
Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation expert, said on Bluesky, referring to tech billionaire Elon Musk_(cropped).jpg)
They are horrible stories, but oftentimes it seems like Musk is coming in like a brand new college freshman, brand new to a subject, as if he‘s found out about it for the first time,
Stelter remarked
He wants more positive content and less negative content, even as he posts about gangs and about rape and other very negative subjects. it is notable that just as Trump is about to take office, Musk says he wants more positivity, more positivity and less negativity,
Stelter said