We should celebrate Mark Zuckerberg’s rebirth on freedom of speech

Just a few years ago, I was working as a software engineer at Facebook on its now-infamous “fact-checking” team. At the time and in the years since, I have pointed out the obvious: While the idea of fact-checking is a good one, since more information is always better than less information, social media platforms handing power over content to biased fact-checkers has been a monumental miscalculation that has not only helped swing elections against Republican candidates, but damaged trust in social media institutions.

There is nothing wrong with the truth, but there is everything wrong with handing politically motivated actors control over what is and is not true.