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# Rogan Misses The Mark: How Zuck’s Misdirection On Gov’t Pressure Goes Unchallenged
- URL: https://werd.io/rogan-misses-the-mark-how-zucks-misdirection-on-govt-pressure/
- Published: 2025-01-19T15:36:24.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-19T15:36:24.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Technology, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Mike Masnick at TechDirt](https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/rogan-misses-the-mark-how-zucks-misdirection-on-govt-pressure-goes-unchallenged/)\]

On Zuckerberg's claims about why he's changing Meta's fact-changing policy:

> "If you only remember two things about the government pressure campaign to influence Mark Zuckerberg’s content moderation decisions, make it these: Donald Trump directly threatened to throw Zuck in prison for the rest of his life, and just a couple months ago FCC Commissioner (soon to be FCC chair) Brendan Carr threatened Meta that if it kept on fact-checking stories in a way Carr didn’t like, he would try to remove Meta’s Section 230 protections in response.  
>  
> Two months later — what do you know? — Zuckerberg ended all fact-checking on Meta."

His appearance on Joe Rogan's show served as a way to whitewash this argument. I don't doubt that the government placed pressure on him to enact certain kinds of community moderation policies, but the timing makes the underlying reasons clear.

This is a long piece that goes into Zuckerberg's claims and debunks them soundly. Here's what you really need to know: it's a PR move to placate the incoming administration, and that Zuckerberg capitulated so soundly and so quickly is a very bad sign.

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\[[Link](https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/rogan-misses-the-mark-how-zucks-misdirection-on-govt-pressure-goes-unchallenged/)\]