Zuckerberg, Meta and Fact-Checkers

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are just beginning.
Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Meta Fact-Checkers For ‘Political Bias’: What Could Go Wrong?!?
“Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created,” Zuckerberg declared in a video message. The tech giant plans to “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship” across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, signaling a significant shift in how social media content will be managed.
Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook's Rogue Fact-Checkers
A new era is dawning at Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that third-party fact-checking organizations would no longer have the power to suppress disfavored speech on Facebook—a major, positive step toward restoring free expression and robust debate on the platform.
Mark Zuckerberg wore one of the rarest watches in the world, worth $900,000, while announcing the end of fact-checking at Meta
Greubel Forsey only makes two or three of the Hand Made 1 each year, which takes around 6,000 hours to construct.
Mark Zuckerberg wears rare $900K Swiss watch to reveal major shift on Meta’s free speech: report
Mark Zuckerberg may be a digital pioneer, but on Tuesday he flashed a taste for analog bling. The Meta CEO appeared to wear a rare Swiss watch which sells for nearly $1 million as he announced the decision to scrap third-party fact-checking by his popular Facebook and Instagram apps.
Mark Zuckerberg defends Meta’s latest pivot in three-hour Joe Rogan interview
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his decision to scale back Meta's content moderation policies in a Friday appearance on Joe ...
Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
Early on in the interview, Zuckerberg tests out the water to see how much pushback he’ll get; Rogan is a notoriously soft ...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Done Listening to His Users
Meta’s return to political content, looser moderation rules, and Trump-friendly policies look a lot like Musk’s vision for X.
Mark Zuckerberg Unloads on Biden White House in Joe Rogan Interview
The Meta CEO, in the middle of a pivot to the right, attacked the president, claiming that his administration would "scream" and "curse" to get certain content taken down.
Opinion
Zuckerberg’s ‘free speech’ pivot is nothing but a cynical power play
Fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram wasn’t perfect, but scrapping it opens the door to prejudice and bigotry, warns former Twitter curator Marc Burrows ...
Mark Zuckerberg ended Facebook censorship after his own post about MMA knee injury got demoted by algorithm: report
Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that Meta would end its partnerships with third party fact-checkers and institute a “Community Notes” model.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's 'community notes' are inspired by Elon Musk's X. Here's how they work — and how they don't.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says "community notes" will now moderate content. That already happens on Elon Musk's X. Here's how ...
Meta to scrap fact checking system, Zuckerberg vows to 'return to roots' of free speech
Meta is eliminating fact-checkers in a move founder Mark Zuckerberg said will make free speech a priority on its social media ...