Facebook’s ‘free speech’ overhaul ‘opened season on just about

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Facebook’s ‘free speech’ overhaul ‘opened season on just about every topic except one’

It turns out that Mark Zuckerberg and Joel Kaplan aren’t so committed to embracing “free speech” after all.

(Article republished from Chris Menahan republished from InformationLiberation.com)

“Facebook’s guidelines overhaul opened season on just about every topic exception one,” Gab CEO Andrew Torba commented Wednesday on X. “Every time.”

He included a quote from Wired Mag detailing the exceptions to Facebook’s “free speech” rules:

The updates similarly preserve a number of older restrictions that Meta has had in place for years. The current version of the policy maintains prohibitions on Holocaust denials, blackface, insinuations about Jewish people controlling the media.

“I think this is broadly what the shift to ‘free speech’ is about from all of these guys,” Torba said in a follow-up post. “Look now you can say whatever you want (except that!) so free speech is restored! People are noticing way too much, especially after Israel bombing kids for the past year. So they open the floodgates of ‘free speech’ to allow everyone to focus on anyone else but them.”

“Conservative” media outlets were celebrating Zuckerberg promoting Joel Kaplan to Chief Global Affairs Officer for Meta as some sort of win for “free speech” — all while ignoring the fact he was “the senior Facebook official who worked directly with the Israeli Government to ensure that Israel’s demands for censorship were honored.”

The newly promoted Chief Global Affairs Officer for Meta is Joel Kaplan.

Kaplan was the senior FB official who worked directly with the Israeli Government to ensure that Israel’s demands for censorship were honored. You can read about his work here:https://t.co/MAjUBu8ZRh

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 3, 2025

In 2020, under lobbying from the World Jewish Congress, Zuckerberg banned all Holocaust denial as well as all content which depicts “Jewish people running the world or controlling major institutions such as media networks, the economy or the government.”

“The idea of banning content that promotes stereotypes of Jewish global control came up a year ago, in a meeting with several Jewish groups convened by Facebook, and was pushed primarily by the World Jewish Congress,” The Jewish Daily Forward reported at the time.

WATCH: World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder demands every nation adopt “severe laws” to jail their citizens for speech he deems antisemitic.

“Laws must be passed, severe, tough, real laws that will put these hatemongers away in prison for a long time!” pic.twitter.com/3nVyNQUQjL

— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) July 9, 2024

The World Jewish Congress also pushed Zuckerberg in 2024 to ban claims of “Zionists” “running the world or controlling the media” as “hate speech.”

Facebook’s “Jewish Diaspora” chief Jordana Cutler explains how she uses her position to censor “hate speech” that “makes Jewish people feel unsafe.”

She says Meta banned “harmful stereotypes like ‘Jews run the world'” as “hate speech” after consulting w/ World Jewish Congress. pic.twitter.com/d6bD8vMa3o

— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) October 22, 2024

Zuckerberg’s newfound commitment to “free speech” is nothing more than a marketing ploy.