Zuckerberg Says He’s Moving Meta Moderators To Texas Because California Seems Too ‘biased’

As information of Meta’s sweeping changes to contented moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that nan institution will too beryllium moving its contented moderation teams from California to Texas to “help region nan liking that biased labour are overly censoring content,” he wrote connected Threads.

“We’re going to move our spot and accusation and contented moderation teams retired of California, and our US-based contented reappraisal is going to beryllium based successful Texas,” Zuckerberg says successful a video astir nan changes. “As we activity to beforehand free expression, I deliberation that it will thief america build spot to do this activity successful places wherever there’s small liking astir nan bias of our teams.”

Meta’s determination to move its contented moderation teams to Texas follows Elon Musk bringing X and SpaceX to nan state, though Musk’s move was driven successful information by his guidance to a California norm that’s intended to support LGBTQ+ students. (Employees who activity for Meta successful Texas will beryllium taxable to bans connected gender-affirming attraction for transgender minors connected pinch 1 of nan country’s astir stringent abortion bans.)

Meta’s different moderation changes spot ditching its independent fact-checking programme successful nan US successful favour of an X-inspired Community Notes feature, removing restrictions connected topics for illustration migration and gender, and bringing backmost civic contented to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.