Meta (Facebook) Goes MAGA

UFC’s Dana White is the newest board member of Meta (Facebook), and Mark Zuckerberg just posted a video explaining that his company plans to eliminate fact checkers and censor less content related to politics and social issues on Facebook and Instagram. Instead, it will utilize a method similar to X’s (formerly Twitter) Community Notes. In other words, with new board leadership like White, who is a major Trump supporter, and by admitting that Elon Musk’s X is a standard to follow, the publicly traded Meta has gone MAGA.

The ACLJ has been using Facebook for a long time to share its content, and we’ve definitely had issues over the years with unfactual fact checkers. However, we have won our appeals every single time, and Facebook has never once removed one of our posts permanently after it was fact-checked. Regardless, the fact-checking was an overreach, and Zuckerberg’s announcement is a huge win for free speech.

You’ve probably been a victim of being fact-checked over the past few years. And if you said that your views were being censored by the Deep State, you probably had that post throttled (i.e., buried) by Facebook’s algorithms.

The ACLJ has fought against unlawful censorship in courtrooms for years – the most egregious being when the Deep State FBI told Zuckerberg to quash any mentions of Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2016 election cycle. We know this because on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Zuckerberg infamously admitted to being strong-armed by the U.S. government.

The ACLJ has a lawyer on staff who ensures we have a voice advocating for us on social media platforms. Sekulow Executive Producer Will Haynes recounted a specific example of how the ACLJ legally fought Facebook’s censorship:

There’s one very specific instance that I remember, which was a bill that was going to the Maryland State House. It was going forward. It had that language about “perinatal abortion,” which we were pointing out that term includes the period after birth as well.

[A similar bill was being considered in California, and], the lawyers for the Democrats conceded that . . . there could be some unintended consequences here. It wasn’t even the conservative pro-life faction that was saying this. It was the lawyers for the Democrats, and we were pointing this out. Our lawyers were presenting in this hearing, testifying before a legislative body. We had a [Facebook] post about that very issue. And the liberal fact checkers that Facebook was using rated it as false. Not only does that make the post not get shown up, but it also hurts your entire brand and category of having your posts and information seen.

We fought it. We were able to successfully overturn it by showing documentation of what we testified and what the Democrat lawyers in that State House testified. [We] showed them the record and got it overturned with no long-term damage to the organization’s social media.

Another eye-opening moment in Zuckerberg’s video is when he said that he would work with the Trump team to limit government interference on social media. He also criticized the censorship occurring globally.

Some might be skeptical about Zuckerberg’s motives. Is he merely just playing the cards he’s been dealt with the new Trump Administration taking over? Or does he truly regret the damage that social media censorship has caused? Only time will tell. However, conservatives have to take a win for the First Amendment when they get it.

We also can’t help but note that Apple CEO Tim Cook also recently visited Mar-a-Lago. And Amazon Prime Video just licensed a documentary about Melania Trump after Jeff Bezos donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund – a sign that he, too, is making in-roads with President Trump. All these Big Tech leaders are reading the tea leaves about what the American public wants and acting accordingly.

The ACLJ has over four million followers on Facebook, yet only a handful see our content every day due to social media censorship. In fact, only a few hundred followers initially saw our live broadcast on Facebook while we aired today’s broadcast, which is outrageous. I hope something drastic changes in the days ahead.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included a full analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook and Instagram will reduce censorship. We also discussed how Judge Aileen Cannon blocked Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing a report about his classified documents case against President Trump.

Watch the full broadcast below: