Mark Zuckerberg’s Fact-Checking Announcement Is Worse Than You Think

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Tuesday—the fourth anniversary of the day Meta implemented its two-year suspension on then-President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts following the 2021 Capitol insurrection—Mark Zuckerberg posted a five-minute vertical video in which he heralded a significant vibe shift on those very platforms. The curly-haired, gold-chained Meta CEO decried “governments and legacy media” that, he claimed, “pushed to censor more and more” for “clearly political” reasons. Zuckerberg then claimed...