Meta announced a slew of changes meant to mend ties with MAGA, one of the movement’s most prominent influencers, Alex Bruesewitz, hopped on a Zoom call to get a preview from the company’s new global policy chief.
Mark Zuckerberg’s shock announcement on Monday that the company would scrap its fact-checking programme sparked renewed fears over the dangers of social media.
While campaigning for Donald Trump in October, Elon Musk claimed he could slash “at least $2 trillion” in government spending. Now that Musk has started laying the groundwork for his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, he’s not as confident.
With Republicans back in control of both chambers of Congress and calling for new regulation of Big Tech, the Meta CEO is realigning with Trump.
The fact-check change came alongside a set of sweeping policy and staffing refreshes at Meta, including the appointment of Trump ally Joel Kaplan to helm the Facebook parent company's policy department. NBC News reports that the company also changed its hate speech rules on the platform, now allowing users to call LGBTQ+ people mentally ill.
If you had any doubt that Meta was changing to please the new president, that's over now, Peter Kafka writes.
Donald Trump once threatened to send Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to prison. Since the election, he has warmed up to Zuckerberg.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Donald Trump the day before announcing his social media platforms would end their fact-checking protocols The post Mark Zuckerberg Met With Trump Just Before Announcing and End to Fact-Checking,
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook will roll back its fact-checking program. Newsweek's live blog is closed.
I t feels like we’re in a new era now,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, as he announced sweeping changes to the firm’s social-media platforms in a video on January 7th. Two weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration,
Zuckerberg later became less vocally critical of Trump. Following the 2024 election, he donated $1 million to his inaugural committee and dined at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in late November, the Associated Press reported.
Tech and media experts told Fox News Digital that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be applauded for adopting a fact-checking system similar to Elon Musk's X.