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

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


Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has come under fire from both the “Facebook Supreme Court” and its own employees following Zuckerberg’s decision this week to embrace free speech on his heavily censored platforms.

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

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