The Tell in Zuckerberg s Letter to Congress – WSJ

The closest the letter comes to admitting causation is Mr. Zuckerberg s assertion that he told his teams at the time that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction and we re ready to push back if something like this happens again. This sounds like bold defiance. But if something like that happens again suggests that Meta didn t push back when it happened before a backhanded admission that government pressure caused Meta to compromise. Mr. Zuckerberg never says, and couldn t say, that Meta would have made the same censorship decisions in the absence of government pressure.

Mr. Zuckerberg s letter is unintentionally revealing. Although it belatedly acknowledges the repeated government pressure, it s much too cagey, nearly silent, about the effect of that pressure in securing social-media censorship. Mr. Zuckerberg s caution about causation speaks volumes about his fears (or those of his lawyers) that, if the truth were out, Meta would be legally vulnerable.

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Philip Hamburger. Proof that some law professors are not just termites gnawing at the pillars of all that we hold dear.

Save some room in your heart for poor old Zuck. He has a lot on his mind these days. Like where is the food going to come from while the rest of us are eating bugs?