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Note published on January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC

2025-01-07T15:00:05+00:00

"The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising free speech," said Mark Zuckerberg.

Doublespeak.

As I wrote the other day:

Similar attacks on speech are becoming only more common throughout the American right, with president-elect Trump’s longstanding hostility to the media escalating at a rapid clip. In recent months, Trump has suggested he wouldn’t mind if reporters were shot,22 threatened to jail journalists, editors, and publishers who refuse to reveal confidential sources, threatened to investigate or pull broadcasting licenses for news organizations that reported on him unflatteringly,23 and filed SLAPP suits of his own against news publications and pollsters.24