Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Meta, the parent company for Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will not fix her approach to the Institute of Content on the eve of Trump’s second opening. Trump and the main platforms of social media have been fighting for years due to the perceived biases to combat the province, including a dead decision to close Trump’s novels after January 6, 2021, Capitol Rotol.
While the recent movements appear to be self-preservation of companies in a reprisal political environment, they also reflect the stubborn facts about harassing a global public field-so they retreat all over the world in ways that can mainly constitute the possibilities of a real global digital platform.
The changes announced by Zuckerberg are sweeping. META will get rid of the third -party fact -examination program in the United States in favor of simulating the X’s “community notes” model for corrections made from the crowd. Except for the most severe types of Illegal or dangerous contentSuch as “terrorism, sexual exploitation of children, drugs, fraud and fraud”, the company will rely on the automatic systems of the brand on potential violations, and instead leaving users to report objections when discovering policy breach. Meta will be mistaken, as well as leaving the content that does not violate the law or enhances unconnected harm in another way, and reduces the restrictions of speech on political issues, including migration and sexual identity. The teams of companies that oversee confidence and safety from California will move to Texas.And other American sites“It is supposed to reflect more prevailing – in the sense of the red situation – political sensitivities.
Meta has not lost any time its rules are renewed in line with this transformation. Tuesday updates to the company Policy of hateful behaviorPart of “Society Standards”, its definition “to ignore speech” narrowed. They have eliminated the previous ban on, for example, likening people to stools and speaking to deny the existence of protected properties such as religious affiliations and sexual identities. After years of campaigns for more updated internet regulations, Meta’s leadership is now Pledge to work with the Trump administration To ward off handrails around the world, the Biden era efforts are denied to reduce misleading and abuse over the Internet. Dana White, Trump’s ally and CEO of the Final Fighting Championship, is Join a dead plate.
Although the changes in politics are specially designed for American policy, the standards of the Meta community apply worldwide, with some difference in compliance with local laws that require a decrease in the content of more than the company’s private rules. International users and civil society institutions have operated social media trends on American priorities. They have criticized the scarcity of supervisors fluently in foreign languages and companies’ failure to invest adequately in local cultural efficiency. In judging the content amid conflicts, including the wars of Ukraine and Israel-Hamas, Meta is accused of deliberate blindness; The company’s platforms were accused of reducing participation with Palestinian news means and Empowerment The spread of misleading information sponsored by the Russian state.
These recent changes confirm that while Meta demands billions of users worldwide, at least at the present time, the most important audience is residing on 1600 Pennsylvania Street. The transfer of confidence and safety teams to Texas risks the trade of years of experience in struggling with the global moderation dilemmas of an uncertain offer to obtain a finger on the pulse of what is supposed to be Central America.
It may be logical that the narrower hate enlarged policies are to enable more discussion on hot American issues, including borders and sexual identity. But they will also end up to reduce the Hanafi on ethnic anatomy in parts of the world, including Myanmar, South Sudan and Ethiopia, where this hatred can explode into non -controlled violence. Meta did not explain how the new global standards will be applied in other judicial states, including only repressive societies, but also liberal democracies such as the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada that define hateful discourse and prohibit it on a broader scale from the United States.
Although the United States is truly proud of the traditions of the first amendment and the wide pavement of freedom of expression, it should not force its standards to the world. We cannot exclude links between Hatrical online speech And physical violence in the United States at a time when the relationship between online extremism and terrorism may be in the real world intensification.
The Zuckerberg advertisement is likely to remove some Meta users from the platform. The United States who are not interested in seeing more words or politics can simply abandon their accounts and stay aware and connected to friends through other alternatives online.
But in the West Bank, Maldives, About 30 countries in AfricaAnd elsewhere, the identification platforms are mainly on the Internet. In Africa, Meta has invested in a program known as the free basics to give users free online through their phones, and to save a lifeline – Although it is controversial For individuals and companies that make them depend on the platform.
It is not wrong to note that the firm police on the Internet is full of clouds that are impossible to implement on a large scale through billions of publications every day. Their choice of error besides more talk is to be defended, if it is incomplete, in response to a political moment in the United States in it A large part of the population He feels annoying through the limits of acceptable public discourse.
Throughout the world, users will not have a little opinion on how these changes appear in completely different contexts, with consequences that may reshape societies and even threaten lives. America first, in fact.
Susan Nosel is a member of the Facebook Supervision Council and author of “Dare to Speak: Defening Free Beight For All”.