Meta
- Meta is moving its safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas and other states.
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the shifts would help address concerns of bias and overcensorship.
- Zuckerberg’s Meta appears to be following the lead of Elon Musk’s X in prioritizing free speech.
Mark Zuckerberg is moving Meta’s platform security and content oversight teams out of California, and shifting staff who review posts to Texas, in a bid to combat concerns about liberal bias and overcensorship at his social-media empire.
The CEO of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads’ parent company said on Tuesday that the moves would help return Meta to its “roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms.”
Zuckerberg wrote that Meta would “move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.”