Nope. It’s a US election, Trump appeasement thing. Meta replaced Nick Clegg (a UK liberal) with a Republican (Kaplan) for global affairs lead and this came out a few days later. A few days before they donated $1m to the inauguration ceremony. Prior to this, there was talk of Trump being pretty annoyed with Meta.
This is all shameful capitulation and political appeasement. They really teaching politicians how to do politics.
In order to avoid political confrontation, they sold all those that wanted a safe space.
Context:
Remove liberal global affairs, replace with Republican: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrw785585wo
Donation to Trump inauguration and more context: https://apnews.com/article/meta-facts-trump-musk-community-notes-413b8495939a058ff2d25fd23f2e0f43
Trump appeasement. Looks like he’s still pissed he was banned. Meta looking desperate.