Mark Zuckerberg, who usually bends with the social winds, is getting out of the fact-checking company. And this is a part of the Meta CEO’s wider efforts to acclimatize himself to Donald Trump following a protracted and difficult relationship. Zuck put up a great present by declaring that Facebook would employ fact-checkers to fight misinformation on the widely-used website after a previous protest. That was a clear indication that Facebook was evolving from a passive publication of users ‘ opinions ( and dog pictures ) into a journalistic one. But it didn’t function. In reality, it led to more info-suppression and repression. Why should anyone trust a group of unknowable fact-checkers employed by one of the extremely unhappy technology titans? 4 YEARS AGO, JACKSON BROWN IS PUSHING THE BACKSTAGE JOCKEY IN TRUMP TRANSITION, SHARING IT WITH HILL STRATEGY, NOW, JACKSON BROWN IS PENALTY, PRESENTING IN A Movie, HARMONIZING IT, PRESENTING IN A Movie:” The problem with intricate systems is they make mistakes. Even if only 1 % of posts are accidentally censored. That’s millions of people. And we’ve reached a point where it’s just too many faults and too much repression. Let me jump in here, because the new elections also serve as a historical tipping point for resuming the importance of speech. Zuckerberg plainly admits, with that column about” social turning place”, that he’s following the standard wisdom–and, of course, the biggest turning point is Trump’s election to a second word. And skeptics claim that this is a spear to the newly elected president and his team. We’re going to get back to our roots and concentrate on reducing errors, simplifying our plans, and restoring completely expression on our programs.” We’re going to get rid of fact chess,” and replace them with community information that are already used on X,” because Trump is worried about adding more lawsuits against advertising as ABC to pay$ 15 million to settle a controversial case. The legacy media repeatedly covered misinformation as a threat to democracy after Trump was elected in 2016. We made an effort to address those concerns without acting as the truth’s arbitrators. However, the fact checkers have simply been too politically biased, destroying more trust than they can create, especially in the United States. S”. It was Zuckerberg, along with the previous management at Twitter, that banned Trump after the Capitol riot. The president-elect told me he had changed his mind about banning TikTok because it would help Facebook, which he viewed as the greater danger, and this led to a lot of Trumpian attacks on Facebook. Trump claimed last summer that Zuckerberg plotted against him in 2020 and that he would spend” the rest of his life in prison” if he repeated that statement. The president-elect boiled it down in a posting:” ZUCKERBUCKS ,DON’T DO IT”! Here’s a bit more from Z:” We’re going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. What started out as a movement to be more inclusive has since grown to suppress opinions and exclude people from different viewpoints. And it’s gone too far”. Indeed it has. And I agree with that. In 2020, social media, led by Twitter, suppressed the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop, dismissing it as Russian disinformation, though a year and a half later the establishment press suddenly declared hey, the laptop report was accurate. DONALD TRUMP’S TOUGH TALK—BUY GREENLAND! TAKE BACK PANAMA CANAL! —SPARKS DEFIANCE FROM MANY REPUBLICAN REBELSLet’s face it: People like Zuckerberg and Elon Musk ( who are now at odds with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over an alleged coverup of gang rapes of young girls when Starmer was the chief prosecutor ) have a lot of power. They are the new gatekeepers. They dominate much of the conversation in public because they are less relevant than the mass exodus of top talent from Jeff Bezos ‘ Washington Post and the recent rise of podcasts, as we see. Yes, they are private companies that have the freedom to do whatever they choose. At yesterday’s marathon news conference, a reporter asked Trump about Zuckerberg:” Do you think he’s directly responding to the threats that you have made to him in the past with promises” ?” Probably. Yeah, probably”, Trump said, twisting the knife a bit. Meanwhile, having made the obligatory trek to Mar-a-Lago for dinner, the CEO has taken a number of steps to join forces with the new administration. And it doesn’t hurt that Meta contributed a million dollars to the Trump inauguration. Joel Kaplan, a prominent Republican attorney, was appointed as head of global affairs at Zuck in his place as former British deputy prime minister. On” Fox &, Friends” yesterday, Kaplan said:” We’ve got a real opportunity now. It makes a difference that we have a new administration and a new president who are staunch supporters of free speech. One of the things we’ve seen is that when a president or administration is pushing for censorship, it just makes it open season for other countries that don’t even have the First Amendment’s protections to really put pressure on US businesses. We’re going to work with President Trump to retaliate against that type of activity all over the world. Got it? What’s more, Zuckerberg is adding Dana White, chief executive officer of United Fighting Championship, to the Meta board. Since White has long been a Trump ally, MAGA now has a voice inside the business. In other words, get with the program. Footnote: At his news conference, where Trump seemed angry about the latest court battles and plans to sentence him, the incoming president said–or “didn’t rule out”, in journalistic parlance – “military coercion” against two of his latest targets. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP” Well, we need Greenland for national security purposes”, he said. And Americans who were constructing the Panama Canal lost numerous lives. ” It might be that you’ll have to do something”. He won’t use force to combat either of them. But his answer stirs the pot, as he knew it would.