It’s possible to welcome the salubrious shifts in corporate behavior we’ve seen from places like Silicon Valley in the wake of Donald Trump’s election and to be disturbed by the degree to which private enterprise feels it must get right with the people in power if is to avoid negative outcomes.
It’s highly likely that Facebook’s decision to shift to an X-style fact-checking regime moderated by the community — thus, outsourcing responsibility for potentially erroneous checks onto a nebulous “community” — is primarily a response to Mark Zuckerberg’s competitors in the social-media space. But it’s also unlikely that Zuckerberg is wholly unresponsive to . . . |