Meta boss regrets bowing to government power and says he would not make the same
choices today
The Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has said he regrets bowing to what he claims was
pressure from the US government to censor posts about Covid on Facebook and
Instagram during the pandemic.
Zuckerberg said senior White House officials in Joe Biden’s administration
“repeatedly pressured” Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to
“censor certain Covid-19 content” during the pandemic.
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And he’s not even in the room
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Progressive snark over vice-president gives way to endless viral quotes and
emojis, blending irony and authentic praise
In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, left-leaning
Americans can’t stop talking about the vice-president online. Memes about Kamala
Harris are spreading with a speed and enthusiasm previously unseen on X and
Instagram.
Supercuts of her set to RuPaul’s Call Me Mother. Threads of her “funniest Veep
moments”. Collages of jokes about her over a green album cover a la Charli xcx’s
Brat. Numerous riffs on a comment she made about a coconut tree. Previous
progressive snark about Harris has cast her either as an incompetent sidekick a
la HBO’s Veep or as an anti-progressive cop, a reference to her years as
California’s top law enforcement official. But as rumors circle about
discussions of Biden dropping out of the presidential race, social media
commentary on the nation’s second-in-command has grown more positive – even if
ironically so.
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He’s a huge supporter
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Fears the incumbent is too old grow after an exchange in which the challenger
was in full talk-to-the-hand mode
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