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Have you no shame? Facebook VP of Global Affairs Nick Clegg wrote an opinion piece calling to spread the American value of free expression after a year of unprecedented censorship.
After Facebook’s infamous year of censoring then-sitting President Donald Trump and countless Americans, earning a F in the MRC Big Tech report card, a company executive has now suggested that America should export free expression to the world. What followed in the CNBC op-ed was an exercise in the pot calling the kettle black. Despite Facebook’s Oversight Board, composed of 75 percent international members who are unsurprisingly and overtly leftist, voting to keep Trump censored, at least for now, Clegg opined: “The U.S. risks becoming a nation that exports incredible technologies, but fails to export its values.”
Facebook executives have suggested the Oversight Board could one day work with "other companies," but competing platforms have little incentive to do so..
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