Oops: Meta Exec Lets Cat Out of the Bag Regarding 2024 Interference
20th February 2024
A top Meta executive admitted on live television that the majority of his company’s employees are involved in censoring speech.
While on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” Feb. 16, Meta President of Global Affairs Sir Nick Clegg proudly estimated around 40,000 Meta employees, or almost 60 percent, help silence free speech on the company’s platforms (including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp). One of the network’s employees was then caught on hot mic, giving context to Clegg’s shocking claim. Clegg also declared his company weaponizes artificial intelligence (AI) as a censorship tool, including in regard to elections, constituting blatant election interference.
The CNBC host, Sara Eisen, babbled about “disinformation, misinformation, [and] interference with the election.” She claimed that the “government should be” targeting this speech, an apparent endorsement of unconstitutional government censorship. “How many people do you have working on this issue, and how do you know what’s enough?” she pressed Clegg. But the tech executive’s response shocked even CNBC.