Don’t expect Mark Zuckerberg to save social media

Mark Zuckerberg still doesn’t get it. This week, the billionaire owner of Meta announced that he was doing away with fact-checkers in a supposed move “towards once again prioritizing speech” at Facebook and Instagram. With or without fact-checkers, though, Zuckerberg will still be the one deciding the rules for what billions of people can see and say every day online. That’s the real problem, and no amount of tinkering with his company’s content moderation policies will solve it. We need congressional action, instead.