Free Speech Coalition notches win w/ Facebook changes

While RGF focuses like a laser on New Mexico tax and economic policies we do strategically work on issues that we believe will have profound impacts on the lives of New Mexicans and all Americans. One of those is free speech, especially online free speech where it has been most threatened in recent years. In early 2021 the Foundation joined the Media Research Center’s “Free Speech Alliance.” After all with these online media companies squashing truthful information about the Hunter Biden laptop, gender ideology, and COVID 19 (to name a few) we believed we needed to DO SOMETHING.

The Coalition just achieved a MAJOR victory when Meta/Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced (you can view his announcement at the link) that it was going to change its censorship-heavy approach to managing its sites. Zuckerberg, responding in part to the election of Donald Trump, but also to pressure from the Free Speech Coalition and other (predominantly conservative voices), recently outlined a much more free speech oriented approach than it had used in the past.

Find out more from RGF on its involvement in the Alliance here and here. Find out more about the Media Research Center-led project here. That organization did the heavy lifting. MRC Founder L. Brent Bozell III and his team did the heavy lifting both in terms of working with policymakers AND putting public pressure on media companies like Meta/Facebook. We are pleased to lend our support to the Coalition and its work!