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We knew it, didn't we?
The Donald Trump presidency, which hasn't yet begun, it is fair to say, is already providing a whole lot of news.
News dominated this week, it is fair to say, by the Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, releasing a statement saying this about the new world.
The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.
So we're going to get back to.
Our roots and focus on reducing mistakes.
Simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms.
More specifically, here's what we're going to do.
We're going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X starting in the us.
Why does that matter so much?
Well, number one, it was released exactly four years to the day after Donald Trump was banned from all Meta platforms.
That was on January the 6th, 7th, 2021.
If you need a reminder about why that was, here you go.
We're going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.
And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of.
So the big question how do we get here?
What do the new rules mean for Meta's global user base of over 3 billion?
What do they mean for American politics and American freedom?