With Trump back in the White House and Elon Musk now the owner of X, formerly Twitter, panicked Zuckerberg is sticking a metaphorical middle finger up at the millions of people whose mental health is compromised by inappropriate content.
I’m still hung up on the bit where social media company Meta declared last week it will “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship” on its platforms which include Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
Zuckerberg kicked Donald Trump off his sites three years ago, claiming: “the risks of allowing the [then] President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great.".
Never mind the AI excitement - what is the government plan to shield us in the Uk from the end of censorship on social media?
We should all be terrified by the cages being reopened on the kind of hateful misinformation and harmful content that saw young Molly Russell take her own life, aged just 14, in 2017.
