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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook and Instagram will end their work third party fact checkers and the ease of certain content restrictions was praised by some conservative activists, who hailed it as a “vindication” of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who dissented from the rest of the court in late 2023 in a case related to the content regulation that included a court publication. former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The case focused on Meta itself he was acting out of his reach when its platform, Facebook, temporarily removed a 30-minute video posted by Kennedy that included vaccine misinformation and other false claims about COVID-19. A majority of the Supreme Court refused to take up the case without explanation, but Alito disagreed, writing as the court’s sole dissenter.
Alito, a George W. Bush appointee, criticized the removal of the video in a scathing dissent, saying the platform had censored a type of political speech in its attempts to crack down on misinformation and could therefore be seen as was acting on behalf of the US. government and possibly causing what he described as “irreparable” damage.
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Judge Samuel Alito Jr. during a formal group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Our democratic form of government is undermined if government officials prevent a candidate for high office from communicating with voters, and such efforts are especially dangerous when the officials who engage in such conduct are answerable to a rival candidate,” he said. Alito said in the dissent.
“I would allow him to intervene to ensure that we can get to the bottom of the defendants’ claims and prevent the irreparable loss of their First Amendment rights,” Alito added.
“Because Mr. Kennedy’s arguments on the merits are essentially the same as respondents’, allowing intervention would not significantly affect petitioners’ burden on this issue,” Alito wrote. “But the denial of intervention will likely prevent Mr. Kennedy from asserting the rights he claims until the spring of 2024 and perhaps until June of that year. And by that time, several months into the presidential campaign will have passed “.
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Meta and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video posted on social media that they had “gone too far” and allowed too much political bias from outside fact-checkers. (Joe Rogan Experience)
Zuckerberg announced earlier this month that Meta would end its previous content restrictions used on Facebook and Instagram, which were put in place after the 2016 election, acknowledging in a video posted on the social networks that they had “went too far” and that they had allowed too much. political bias of external fact checkers.
“We’ve reached a point where there are too many mistakes and too much censorship,” Zuckerberg said in the announcement.
“The recent election also feels like a cultural tipping point to re-prioritize speech. So we’re going back to our roots, focusing on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free speech on our platforms “.
Meta will now replace that system with a “Community Notes”-style program, similar to the approach of social media platform X, he said. X is owned by Elon Muskthe co-director of the planned Government Efficiency Department.
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This news was praised by Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, who noted to X that Zuckerberg’s decision “vindicated” Alito’s dissent. “A fool like Zuck was like, ‘What they did had to be illegal,’ but the majority on the Court was like, ‘I mean, who knows?'” Hemingway said of the decision Supreme Court not to take on the case.
