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dot com and secure your seats today the evolving debate between free speech and online content

moderation may be the defining issue of our time.

Its importance has certainly escalated rapidly over the last 10 years.

As 2025 begins, we are staring down the dilemma of online media at a whole new scale under Trump 2.0.

Because now not only Twitter or X is trending

further to the right along the lines of alternative tech platforms like Telegram and Truth

Social and Rumble, but what we used to call Facebook and now to TikTok are looking like

they're about to join the Wild West anti-moderation,

anything goes enabling of post-truth discourse.

Today, we'll talk about Mark Zuckerberg's pre-inoruration announcement of new rules at

Meta, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and threads, as our starting point,

along with the recent little choreographed dance between TikTok and the American government.

Once we get going here, disinformation researcher, professor, and author Renee DeResta,

will help us make sense of the latest developments.

Now, I don't know about you,

but as a progressive atheist, I started off as a free speech absolutist. Fast forward to today, and I'm firmly in the anti-disinformation camp. The internet changed everything, and then social media changed it once again.

Our worldviews simply have to adapt. And that need not betray our values. I'll share a little today

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