But free speech has never meant no fact checking.
Free speech has never meant that defamation is permitted.
It's no coincidence that the UK PM is tied up defending nonsense allegations from Musk rather than getting on with his actual job 🧐 1/3
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content
Free speech has never meant that defamation is permitted.
It's no coincidence that the UK PM is tied up defending nonsense allegations from Musk rather than getting on with his actual job 🧐 1/3
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content
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Bias in automatic fact checking and censorship may well be a problem, but the answer to that is surely more transparency so that the process can be scrutinised and improved, not returning to the wild west 🤠 3/3
Yes I know that all my posts end with the same rec of transparency & better governance!