SAN FRANCISCO — The clean cut hair has grown, his college kid's hoodie is now a gold chain, and his politics have swerved hard right.Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook and Instagram, on Tuesday accused governments and so-called legacy media of pushing censorship, and vowed to take his world-dominating platforms back to their 'roots.
'The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously,' Zuckerberg wrote at the time.This initiative represented a significant shift in Facebook's approach to content moderation, which had always been an after-thought, or even a source of scorn, for the disruptors of Silicon Valley.
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