The New York Times isn't happy that Meta and Twitter may be scaling back their censorship of "election misinformation" during the 2022 US midterm elections.
Before the 2020 US presidential election, Big Tech platforms deployed unprecedented levels of censorship by censoring then-President Donald Trump numerous times, banning popular pro-Trump groups, and more. Post-election, this mass censorship continued with President Trump being permanently banned by all the major tech platforms, discussions of "widespread fraud or errors" changing the 2020 US presidential election outcome being banned, free speech platform Parler (which many users had flocked to in an attempt to escape Big Tech's censorship) being deplatformed by the tech giants, and more.
The mainstream media and Big Tech used the vague, subjective term "election misinformation" to justify this silencing of a sitting US President and the mass censorship of election-related speech.
But according to The New York Times, Meta's election team, which censors election misinformation and had more than 300 people in 2020, has now been slashed to around 60 people. Additionally, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with the team regularly in 2020 but now the team meets with Meta's President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg instead of Zuckerberg.
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