Is Zuckerberg sincere?

Is Zuckerberg sincere?
By Terry A. Hurlbut
The first full week of January saw some extraordinary activity in the social-media space. Naturally the TikTok Ban Case provided an end-of-the-week distraction. But even earlier, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook), announced a significant retreat from wholesale user censorship. Lately he has been “ratting out” the leftist establishment and especially the Biden administration, saying they “made him do it.” Is he sincere? How far can or should users trust him? And why didn’t he, who had many more resources than other social media CNAV could name, fight that establishment as hard as they have done and have been doing?
What Mark Zuckerberg recently declared
Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense, carefully chronicles the steps Zuckerberg took last week. He made two major changes:
1. Appointing Dana White, head of Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC), to Meta’s Board of Directors, and
2. Discontinuing third-party fact-checking on Meta’s platforms, planning to implement X-style Community Notes instead.
He also announced another change that could be cosmetic only: moving Meta’s headquarters from California to Texas.
This actually is his long-delayed follow-up to his confession, in August 2024, that Meta had engaged in censorship of Americans. He made this confession in writing to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:
1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Big win for free speech.
https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1828201780544504064
Zuckerberg pleaded that the Biden administration had coerced his company. That plea rang hollow then. Zuckerberg has been involved in leftist politics for years, and Facebook always supported it. Furthermore, he cannot claim Biden administration coercion for the “Zuckerbucks” affair, that put Joe Biden into the White House.
Conservative activists, like education activist Rebecca Friedrichs, said, “Prove it!” She had a point. In addition to the activities Facebook championed, and the harm they did to children, Ms. Friedrichs lost her personal Facebook account the very day after Zuckerberg’s written confession became public. Other skeptics heaped similar scorn on the Meta head, and everyone frankly forgot about his “confession” in a few weeks.
Now here we are again, with changes that could be more than cosmetic. One thing above all has changed since the last go-round of confessions: the reelection of Donald J. Trump.
Ample grounds for skepticism
Mary Holland detailed her own problems with Meta in her essay. Children’s Health Defense is still suing Meta, a lawsuit they filed in 2020 in San Francisco. The San Francisco District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have both dismissed CHD’s claim. CHD has now filed a petition for review, docketed only yesterday. Children’s Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., Docket No. 24-732.
On January 9, Zuckerberg appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, explaining his often tempestuous relationships with the Biden administration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1ehaE0bdU
The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and Cullen Linebarger have details. The Meta CEO began with some of the same things he said in his letter to Chairman Jordan last year. Then he talked specifically about censorship in regards to the coronavirus, and its immunization preparations. Zuckerberg protested that “people in the Biden administration” pressured Meta to take down true statements about “vaccine” side effects. Indeed, administration officials were screaming and cursing over the telephone to make sure Meta understood what the administration wanted.
HOLY SHLIT. Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too. When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies. “It was brutal.”
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1877785122314875330
Rogan listened patiently – until Zuckerberg suggested that coronavirus immunization was a good thing. Rogan did not agree.
Zuckerberg: I think…they (the Biden regime) were doing something. Their goal to get everyone vaccinated was actually a good goal…
Rogan: Yeah, it was a good goal if it worked…if it really did prevent people from getting COVID, from infecting others. But it didn’t, so it wasn’t a good deal.
The Vigilant Fox dropped a thirteen-post thread offering further detailed transcripts of the interview, beginning with this post:
Joe Rogan Shuts Down Mark Zuckerberg’s Bogus Claim About COVID
Mark Zuckerberg’s attempt to rebrand himself as a free speech absolutist seemed to be working—until he made this fatal error at the end.
🧵 THREAD
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1877857704384807055
Steve Bannon, who recently got out of prison after serving a contempt sentence, directly accused Zuckerberg of insincerity.
Zuckerberg, you’re one of the worst people in this country. We are not going to turn this country back over to you nerds.
https://rumble.com/embed/v65si0y/?pub=4teej
In addition to obvious vindication, Bannon seeks a criminal investigation of the Election of 2020.
Other changes, and reaction from the left
Zuckerberg will clearly have to come totally clean if he expects to keep his fortune – or even his liberty. He has made three other changes at Meta that have enraged the left:
• Removing feminine hygiene products from men’s restrooms at Meta office buildings (sorry, Alphabet Soupers),
• Discontinuing all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives in hiring, and
• Firing Sir Nicholas Clegg, Knight Bachelor, as President for Global Affairs, and replacing him with Republican Joel Kaplan. Kaplan once served as Deputy White House Chief of Staff in the Bush Younger administration.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex expressed “concern,” i.e., outrage, according to The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Wire. He and his wife the Duchess – the former Meghan Markle – protested Zuckerberg’s moves in a lengthy statement that began thus:
It doesn’t matter whether your views are left, right or somewhere in between—the latest news from Meta about changes to their policies directly undermines free speech.
This should deeply concern us all.
Contrary to the company’s talking points, allowing more abuse and normalizing hate speech serves to silence speech and expression, not foster it.
False, on two levels. First, what constitutes “abuse” or “hate speech”? The Duke doesn’t say. But most important, as the world heard during oral argument in TikTok v. Garland, the best remedy for bad speech is counter-speech. When cry-bullies can scream to the moderators to get a take-down of anything with which they disagree, free speech suffers.
Worse than that screed is Joe Biden’s incredible reaction to Zuckerberg’s repudiation of him:
BREAKING: Biden rips Mark Zuckerberg's decision to get rid of biased fact checkers on Meta for a "Community Notes" model, goes on a pro-censorship tirade.
"It's really shameful."
"I find it to be just contrary to American justice. Telling the truth matters! [...] "You think it doesn't matter? They let millions of people read things that are simply not true? It's completely contrary to what America is all about."
"The idea that a billionaire can buy something and say, from this point on, we're not gonna fact check anything..."
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1877858351121346992
Behold Mr. President Divider. He, who once gave a poor imitation of Cicero against Catiline, now issues a pathetic whine that no one will respect his authority anymore.
What about Zuckerberg?
Mark Zuckerberg likely has one motive: the Trump Effect. Donald Trump first had an effect on him by surviving an attempt on his life and making a defiant gesture. But Trump’s election decided the issue. Zuckerberg has much for which to answer, and to compensate. Mary Holland is right: it will take far more than moving staff to Texas, and every other step he has taken, to give an adequate answer and make an adequate recompense.
Add to it that James O’Keefe has clear evidence that Meta/Facebook were willing participants in the censorship regime. This was happening even during the First Trump Administration. Mr. O’Keefe released a link to that evidence this morning.
NEW ZUCKERBERG TAPES: LEAKED AUDIO of Rockefeller Foundation Staff Reveals Facebook’s $500K Ad Credit Scheme to Boost Biden-Aligned COVID Health Narratives.
“More to come, just trying to get all the freebies from tech!”
“We negotiated $100,000 ad credits per pilot city… We also got ad credits for Governor Cuomo.”
“Keep a running tab of the number of free ads you've unlocked… That'd be a fun stat!”
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1879020072305336593
True, even the steps Zuckerberg has taken, have incurred the out-of-control rage of many on the left. President Biden’s reaction lends some credence to the Meta CEO’s account of administration staff screaming and cursing over the telephone. But it could merely represent resentment that Meta has broken ranks.
Did Zuckerberg take these steps of last week because he somehow knew what James O’Keefe would reveal today? Even without that, he couldn’t deny his history, which actually goes back to the Obama administration.
Besides, look at what Elon Musk did. Or Andrew Torba, who actually built his own server farm. All this is reason enough not to trust Mr. Zuckerberg, and to decamp from Facebook and repair instead to X, Gab, Rumble, BitChute, Brighteon, and similarly motivated platforms.
Link to:
The article:
https://cnav.news/2025/01/14/editorial/talk/zuckerberg-sincere/

Mary Holland’s essay:
https://cnav.news/2025/01/11/accountability/judicial/meta-censored-court/

The written confession:
https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1828201780544504064

CHD v. Meta before the Supreme Court:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24-732.html

Video: Joe Rogan interviews Mark Zuckerberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1ehaE0bdU

Libs of TikTok quote:
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1877785122314875330

The Vigilant Fox thread:
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1877857704384807055

Video: Bannon War Room on Zuckerberg:
https://rumble.com/v680x1s-bannon-zuckerberg-youre-one-of-the-worst-people-in-this-country.html?mref=4teej&mc=88ce6

Statement of TRHs the Duke/Duchess of Sussex:
https://sussex.com/fact-checking-meta/

Eric Daugherty quotes Biden:
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1877858351121346992

James O’Keefe’s latest revelation:
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1879020072305336593

Declarations of Truth:
https://x.com/DecTruth

Declarations of Truth Locals Community:
https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/

Conservative News and Views:
https://cnav.news/

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