Facebook and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defeated critics and the media, believing that people online have enough autonomy to decide what they believe.
Meta announced in January that it would end its controversial fact-checking practices and put forward restrictions on voice to “restore free expression” on Facebook, Instagram, Instagram and its platforms, acknowledging that its current content review practices are “too far away”.
The decision met with swift opposition, who argued that social media needed a powerful system of fact-checking and content review to prevent misleading or extreme ideology. Zuckerberg faces critics who believe the use of social media is inherently harmful, criticizing the coverage of the impact of “sensational” media on social media on Theo von’s “Last Weekend” podcast.
"There is a historical version that says that individuals are very powerful and have a lot of autonomy and ability to move in the direction they think is the right one," Zuckerberg said. "Then, like all other narratives, people try to reduce the autonomy and authority of the people."
Fung Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg spoke with comedian Theo von on his "Last Weekend" podcast.
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Facebook founder suggests that if someone makes a misunderstanding, it is the media itself.
“I’m like, I’ve always been a person who really believes in people’s understanding – people are smarter than people think, and I think I think their lives can make good decisions and when they do things like media or anything, they generally have no sense; it’s usually because media doesn’t understand their lives, not because people are stupid,” he said.
Zuckerberg added: "If what people say seems to be wrong, usually not wrong information, usually you don't understand what's going on in that person's life, I just think there is some kind of guy in some mainstream narratives and some media narratives and some media."
The Chief Executive did point out that the information landscape has changed a bit, because “maybe some of these cultural or media elites like it’s hard to predict what will happen in the world. Maybe there’s more humility like “maybe we don’t understand all of this.” ”
Fungal Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has been severely criticized for ending controversial fact-checking practices on his platform. (Kent Nissi Village)
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Zuckerberg believes that the best predictor for evaluating a system is whether people think it is useful.
"If you're building something that works for them, they'll use it," he said. He advised that they'll give it up if other better options are available.
Zuckerberg said danger is when people make choices for them.
"Whenever we adopt an attitude that we have to know better than them, because we are the people who build technology, that's when you lose," he said. "If you have an attitude long enough, you're like being a company, you lose, you lose, you lose, and then you don't matter."
Zuckerberg reiterates his belief that people are smart enough to make their own choices and “ultimately push the direction in which society is moving forward.”
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla were welcomed by Senator Marco Rubio in the rotunda. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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