> Google's move to reinstate previously banned channels comes just over a year after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said [...] that the Biden administration had repeatedly pressured Meta in 2021 to remove content related to COVID-19. "I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it," Zuckerberg wrote in the August 2024 letter.

I'm sure Zuckerberg will say the same thing in 2029 too if the ruling party changes again. Until then, removing fact-checking and letting conspiracy theorists have their freedom of speech while suppressing voices critical of the current administration will make that change less likely...