Türk made this statement on Friday following Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end the company’s fact-checking programme in the United States. “Allowing hate speech and harmful content online has real-world consequences. Regulating this content is not censorship,” Türk wrote on X (formerly Twitter). In a longer post on LinkedIn, Türk argued that calling efforts to create safe online spaces “censorship” ignores the reality that an unregulated space often silences marginalised voices. He also noted that allowing hatred online restricts free expression and could lead to harm.