PolitiFact’s Sharockman says Facebook’s decision to remove journalists from its content moderation program has nothing to do with free speech

Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Meta ’s social media sites including Facebook, Instagram , and Threads would be eliminating their heavy-handed censorship policies.

This includes terminating their “ third party factchecking program” where the company paid legacy media organizations to “fact check” content on the site and then used those judgments to censor content.

Mark Zuckerberg could not be less subtle.

Facebook and Meta solely created the penalties that publishers faced and the warning labels and overlays that users saw.

If Meta is upset it created a tool to censor, it should look in the mirror..

John Avlon : The Weekly Standard's participation in Facebook ’s fact checking program led to awkward staff meeting.

Avlon says it led to uncomfortable moment when fact checker said he was uncomfortable with the responsibility.

He says Facebook fact checks kill 80 percent of the global internet traffic to that story.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg owes nothing of the restitution he owes to conservative publications like this, he says.

Sharockman and PolitiFact don’t get to have it both ways.