Meta, California and Texas

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is moving moderators out of California to combat concerns about bias and censorship
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms.
Is California too liberal to moderate Facebook? Meta moves moderation team to Texas
The social media giant, whose founder billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to make nice with the incoming Donald Trump presidential administration, isn’t stopping there. It’s also shipping its “trust and safety” moderation team out of its liberal Bay Area headquarters and sending it to conservative Texas, as well as other unspecified states.
Meta moving trust and safety teams to Texas from California
Meta announced it would move its content reviewers and policy writers from California to Texas and other areas.
Meta to move content moderators to Texas as part of plan to end fact-checking program
The tech giant’s decision to end the program comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeks to mend ties with the incoming Trump administration.
The Spirit of Facebook Is Moving From California to Texas
In that spirit, on Tuesday he announced that the trust and safety teams who write content policy for Facebook, Meta, and Threads would be moving from California to Texas. Facebook’s content cops will trade In & Out for Whataburger.
Meta’s content moderation teams moving from California to Texas after scrapping fact checking system
Meta is eliminating fact-checkers in a move founder Mark Zuckerberg said will make free speech a priority on its social media platforms — including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — and align the multinational tech giant with a political tilt to the right with the recent election of Donald Trump.
Zuckerberg says he’s moving Meta moderators to Texas because California seems too ‘biased’
As we work to promote free expression, I think that it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there’s less concern about the bias of our teams,’ according to the Meta CEO.
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