A major announcement from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has left one incoming Texas lawmaker skeptical.
On Tuesday, the embattled CEO announced that his platform would dismantle large elements of the company’s censorship infrastructure and reorganize the rest. As part of that effort, Zuckerberg announced the move of the company’s “content moderation” team to Texas.
“[W]e’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our U.S.-based content review is going to be based in Texas,” said Zuckerberg. “As we work to promote free expression, I think that will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams.”
The move to Texas, however, is not universally popular.
In a post to X, incoming State Rep. Katrina Pierson (R-Rockwall) explained that “the jury’s still out on how I feel about this.”
Pierson continued, “Importing extreme liberals, especially as someone whose FB/Instagram has been censored for years, is not ideal for Texas.”
I sincerely hope @Meta and @finkd truly understand the damage they have caused by violating the first amendment rights of a free people, election interference, and the vast amount of distrust they have sowed into society with fake fact-checkers and biased promotion/suppression.
“P.S. leave your politics in California,” Pierson concluded.
Meta’s operation of Facebook in Texas has long been a source of controversy. In addition to concerns over its corporate censorship operations, the multi-trillion dollar market capitalization corporation has received corporate welfare in the form of tax abatements and direct payments from the governor’s office.
Pierson will be sworn into office Tuesday, January 14.
