You can hear the gasps from CNBC control room for yourself.
On Friday, Meta’s President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg claimed, “We have around 40,000 people working on kind of safety and integrity on our platforms. Generally we spend a lot of money on it, we spend, oh, about 20 U.S. billion dollars in recent years on things like election integrity.”
“Hot mic” whispers could quickly be heard from the CNBC control room operating the ‘Squawk On The Street’ program as they realized META only has 67,000 employees in total.
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Based on Clegg’s comment, nearly 60 percent of Meta’s total workforce is involved in censoring free speech, likely using a leftist bias. Clegg, meanwhile, boasted about how his company uses AI to crush speech. AI is “our most powerful tool to identify and deal with the kind of content we don’t want to see on our platforms,” Clegg said. This includes “hate speech,” he added, using a vague term that can mean anything that the left does not agree with. Clegg asserted that hate speech has “been reduced by over 50 percent” in recent years through “improvements in AI technology.”
Meta has censored content on its platforms repeatedly based on federal government demands, for instance crushing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in 2020 after FBI priming. A Media Research Center poll found in November 2020 that 17 percent of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s voters would not have voted for him had they been aware of the president’s scandals that Big Tech and the legacy media censored. Yet Meta’s Oversight Board members recently advocated for increased censorship.
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