Facebook’s new free speech policy shows business getting back to business

Facebook owner Meta is joining X (formerly Twitter) in substituting user-generated community notes on contested posts for top-down muzzling.

Mark Zuckerberg says he succumbed to pressure to suppress speech disfavored by the bien pensant class.

Zuckerberg even acknowledges bowing to shifting political winds, saying, "the recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point".

Meta Meta: Mark Zuckerberg steps back from default affiliation with one faction of American politics as well as the government.

Meta: Zuckerberg joins other companies who are jettisoning brief flirtations with trendy causes.

He says it's not obvious that the business executives in question had a sincere commitment to the causes they now reject, or that their principles, should they have any, have changed. Meta: By taking their companies out of the political fray and acknowledging their customers' right to disagree with one another and with the government, they can leave us room to work out our differences.