Mark ZuckerbergIt's time to get back to our roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms. Here's what we're going to do:
1/ Replace fact-checkers with Community Notes, starting in the US.
2/ Simplify our content policies and remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse.
3/ Change how we enforce our policies to remove the vast majority of censorship mistakes by focusing our filters on tackling illegal and high-severity violations and requiring higher confidence for our filters to take action.
4/ Bring back civic content. We're getting feedback that people want to see this content again, so we'll phase it back into Facebook, Instagram and Threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive.
5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.
Brandon Sorensen@zuck Could you elaborate this point a bit? What effect does the location of the moderation team have on its policies? How would you respond to those who see this as an attempt to curry favor with the incoming administration?
Frankly, this comment reduces my faith in Meta's moderation policies. It works against the claim that these changes are meant to reduce the platform's susceptibility to government interference. In fact, it looks like a direct response to gov't pressures.