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Homepage > News > Editorial > True Disruption: Don’t Zuck this up, Mark! Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook/Meta (NASDAQ: META), recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, delivering a surprising mea culpa about Facebook’s history of censorship. He acknowledged that during key moments in recent history—most notably the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic—Facebook capitulated to external pressures and suppressed free speech. From bowing to requests from the Biden administration to eliminate “inconvenient” but true information to allowing fact-checkers to morph into worldview enforcers, Zuckerberg painted a troubling picture of Silicon Valley’s descent into Orwellian gatekeeping. title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” referrerpolicy=”strict-origin-when-cross-origin” allowfullscreen=””> Zuckerberg’s new declaration that Meta is moving toward becoming a free speech platform, inspired by Elon Musk‘s stewardship of X (formerly Twitter), should be welcomed in theory. He has even announced plans to disband Meta’s fact-checking teams entirely, signaling what could be a radical departure from the paternalistic content moderation strategies that have dominated the last 8-10 years of the social media era. The Zuckerberg of today—fresh off a newfound passion for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts—seems to exude humility and an openness to reinvention that contrasts sharply with the stiff and awkward persona of his infamous “smoked meats” Facebook livestream days. title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” referrerpolicy=”strict-origin-when-cross-origin” allowfullscreen=””> But the question remains: Is this pivot genuine, or is it merely savvy public relations designed to rehabilitate the battered reputation of a lifelong Democratic Party insider, donor and member of the Silicon Valley tech oligarchy? The PR game of tech titans If he was unique in some of his newfound libertarian streak, I’d be more convinced, but Zuckerberg is not the only tech titan attempting to rebrand…

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