{"id":2387675,"date":"2025-01-08T05:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-get-amnesty-without-accountability\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T05:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:35:40","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-get-amnesty-without-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-zuckerberg-doesnt-get-amnesty-without-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Doesn&#8217;t Get Amnesty Without Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-zuckerberg-doesnt-get-amnesty-without-accountability%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2387675&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Mark Zuckerberg \u2062recently\u2062 issued a public apology on\u200d behalf of Meta, admitting that the company had made &#8220;mistakes&#8221; in censoring political opponents over the years. He claimed that Meta is committed too free expression but blamed external factors, such as legacy \u200dmedia and biased \u200dfact-checkers, for the issues\u200d rather \u200dthan taking personal \u2062duty. \u2063The commentary reflects skepticism about Zuckerberg&#8217;s sincerity, particularly in light of \u2063Donald Trump\u2019s potential return \u2063to political office and previous actions by Meta, including banning Trump and limiting the dissemination of stories like \u2064the Hunter Biden laptop controversy,\u2063 which allegedly \u200binfluenced the 2020 election. The piece argues that while Meta&#8217;s promise\u200b to improve is welcome,\u200d the consequences of its\u200c past censorship were serious, and acknowledging mistakes doesn&#8217;t absolve the company \u2062of\u200d its accountability toward democracy and free speech.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Meta is super-duper apologetic for censoring its political enemies for years on end. He promises to do better because his tech behemoth is actually a huge fan of free expression &hellip; They&rsquo;ve just made a few &ldquo;mistakes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s about as sincere as Meta&rsquo;s PR blitz got, with Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DEhf2uTJUs0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointing the finger<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2025\/01\/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at pretty much everybody<\/a> &mdash; legacy media, &ldquo;complex&rdquo; and &ldquo;automated systems,&rdquo; &ldquo;filters,&rdquo; political &ldquo;movements,&rdquo; the state of California, the U.S. government, experts, and third-party fact-checkers &mdash; except himself. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The problem with <em>complex systems<\/em> is they make mistakes,&rdquo; Zuckerberg <s>apologized<\/s> rationalized in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DEhf2uTJUs0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video message<\/a>. &ldquo;After Trump first got elected in 2016, the <em>legacy media<\/em> wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the <em>fact-checkers<\/em> have just been too politically biased.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many conservatives seem tickled at the thought of the second coming of Elon, savior of free speech. But color me more skeptical and enraged. I&rsquo;m sure Zuckerberg&rsquo;s sudden change of heart has nothing to do with Donald Trump getting ready to retake office after Zuckerberg banned him from Facebook and rigged the 2020 election against him &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>If Meta follows through on its promises, the country will undoubtedly benefit. Moving tech employees from California to Texas sounds like an improvement. Accounts not being nuked for calling a man a man and a woman a woman is objectively good and long overdue, even if it&rsquo;s the bare minimum a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">social media site<\/a> can do. <\/p>\n<p>But censoring the free press and free speech of everyday Americans wasn&rsquo;t a victimless crime, and its perpetrators don&rsquo;t just get to throw the injured party a &ldquo;my B!&rdquo; and carry on with their business while we pick up the pieces of the republic. <\/p>\n<p>One of Meta&rsquo;s most obvious sins was its rigging of the 2020 election, and no, it wasn&rsquo;t the fault of &ldquo;complex systems.&rdquo; Right after disproportionately bankrolling election offices in the blue areas of swing states to run get-out-the-vote operations for Joe Biden, Zuckerberg himself announced in 2021 that his company was banning Trump, then the sitting president of the United States, from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely. No &ldquo;mistakes&rdquo; were made based on &ldquo;complex systems&rdquo; and biased experts; a calculated tech oligarch simply censored his political opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Zuckerberg&rsquo;s outfit throttled the completely true Hunter Biden laptop story that threatened to hurt Joe Biden&rsquo;s 2020 chances. Because of Facebook&rsquo;s actions, undecided American voters were deprived of access to bombshell evidence of the Biden family&rsquo;s corrupt pay-to-play scheme just weeks before the election. Just as Zuckerberg now blames everyone else for Meta&rsquo;s errors, in 2022 he blamed FBI warnings for his company censoring the laptop story.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t just election interference, though. Americans were prevented from finding and sharing non-Fauci-approved Covid-19 information. It&rsquo;s no exaggeration to say Facebook pushing Covid misinformation from the government contributed to people dying across the globe, as Covid panic led to deadly lockdowns. Those lockdowns kept many patients away from essential care and elderly Americans away from pivotal support systems. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/24\/new-study-finds-lockdowns-didnt-save-any-lives-and-may-have-killed-more-people-than-doing-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Studies<\/a> show lockdowns also caused an increase in anxiety, child and domestic abuse, substance abuse, and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Meta has also silenced Americans for telling the truth about the sexes, abortion, the deadly effects of Biden&rsquo;s border invasion, and election irregularities. The Federalist was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/07\/were-still-waiting-for-facebook-to-atone-for-the-11-times-we-know-of-it-censored-the-federalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censored<\/a> for the above, plus much less consequential stories, like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/02\/clown-show-pete-buttigieg-bikes-to-work-after-suvs-drive-him-part-of-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretending<\/a> to bike to work.<\/p>\n<p>For conservative media like The Federalist, Zuckerberg&rsquo;s censorship has been tantamount to financial theft. His company single-handedly throttled many outlets&rsquo; reach and consequently our revenue. Right-wing media exist to counter the nonstop stream of lies from the propaganda press, so when tech giants silence us, the false regime narrative goes unchecked &mdash; and that&rsquo;s no small thing in a functioning constitutional republic. But when your business model depends on ad dollars and you can&rsquo;t just run to Daddy Bezos when traffic slows down, censorship is also stealing.<\/p>\n<p>Now Zuckerberg wants amnesty. He wants to eat a teensy bit of crow in exchange for amnesiac friends across the aisle who treat him like the next Elon Musk who swooped in with lifeboats for the sinking ship, rather than the corrupt captain who took the ship down. This isn&rsquo;t a real admission of guilt. We can&rsquo;t give Mark Zuckerberg amnesty for the same reason we can&rsquo;t give it to Anthony Fauci or Joe Biden or Letitia James or Jack Smith. There can be no amnesty without restitution and true accountability &mdash; for Covid crimes, corruption, lawfare, or, in this case, censorship. It&rsquo;s too little, too late.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg is ultimately shooting for a plea deal in the court of public opinion. He wants to throw his co-conspirators under the bus and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">half-heartedly admit guilt<\/a> for lesser offenses with the hope of a slap on the wrist and maybe a little community service. That&rsquo;s not justice, and the American people should reject it.<\/p>\n<p>We can all hope Meta&rsquo;s changes make the dumpster fires of Facebook and Instagram burn a little less hot, but until Zuckerberg faces a reckoning for his republic-destroying actions, there should be no amnesty for him.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Kylee Griswold is the managing editor of The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-we-wouldnt-have-such-a-censorship-problem-if-more-journalists-did-their-job\/\" title=\"Grassley: We Wouldn\u2019t Have Such a Censorship Problem \u2018If More Journalists Did Their Job\u2019\">communication arts\/speech<\/a> and an A.S. in criminal justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religion, and the media. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerberg claims Meta regrets years of political censorship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"featured_media":2387676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-07-at-1.01.01%E2%80%AFPM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8049,3712,4381,35598,32364],"class_list":["post-2387675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-accountability","tag-amnesty","tag-ethics","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-social-media"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-07-at-1.01.01%E2%80%AFPM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387679,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387675\/revisions\/2387679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}