Meta’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg has admitted that the tech giant “still has too high” content moderation error rates.
This is another way of conceding that censorship is alive and well on Meta’s massive platforms, Facebook and Instagram, but also, Threads.
That’s despite there being something of a shift in the way this issue is treated by Meta, including by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Now Clegg, in a blog post dedicated to 2024 “global elections,” touches on free expression allowed on these social platforms, to state that Meta’s choice is to find a “balance” between free speech and “keeping people safe.”
It’s unclear how Meta “keeps people safe,” but free speech is a straightforward concept, and here Clegg offers a “mea culpa” by not only publicly accepting that there are high rates of error, something that he says “gets in the way” of free expression.
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