Zuckerberg pledges Facebook U-turn on censorship

Most astonishing New Year's Resolution ever? Certainly the one with most global reach: social media platform Facebook, set up by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, currently boasts more than three billion (yes, with a 'b') active monthly users from a total world population of just over eight billion. In this surprise announcement, Zuckerberg - reported to be worth US$213 billion - says censorship has gone too far and he is returning Faceook to its roots by switching its 'fact-checking' function to a system more like Community Notes (X, formerly Twitter's approach). The New York Post reports: "The 40-year-old tech tycoon — who dined with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after his Nov. 5 election victory, with Meta donating $1 million to his inaugural fund — claimed that the dramatic about-face was sign that the company is returning to an original focus on free speech". Too little too late, say those who deplored or suffered from the full-on censorship era. Your response to this ad for the born-again Facebook?

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