On Zuckerberg Free Speech About-Face We Must Distrust and Verify

And what about justice for the silenced?

Mark Zuckerberg promises not to censor anymore — will he make up for punishing truth tellers before?

Two weeks before the inauguration of Donald Trump — a man who has vowed to dismantle and destroy the Censorship-Industrial Complex that silenced him and millions of other Americans — one of the figures most responsible for the censorship regime delivered a message.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that his company had engaged in “too much censorship,” and declared that with the “cultural tipping point” of recent elections, his platforms would now be undertaking efforts to “restore free expression.”

But has the tech titan really seen the light on free speech, and will Meta truly overhaul itself accordingly?

Or is this a cynical and self-interested attempt to beg for forgiveness/pay for protection with shifting political winds, leading to cosmetic and temporary reforms?

And what will Zuckerberg do, if anything, to provide restitution for the individuals, activists, and journalists silenced — not to mention for the body politic itself, bereft of the speech his platform purged and the debates it would have hosted.

I respond to the Zuckerberg reforms in a new piece in today’s New York Post, which you can find here.