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.

Donald Trump once threatened to send Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to prison. Since the election, he has warmed up to Zuckerberg.

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.

I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.

The Meta CEO just announced a new content-moderation policy in a video that plays like an extremely high-profile friend request sent to incoming president Donald Trump. GQ columnist Chris Black wonders why anyone is surprised.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political shift to the right ahead of the new Trump administration was months in the making.

EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Trump reacted to Meta's move to end its fact-checking program on Facebook, Instagram and its other platforms, telling Fox News Digital that the company has “come a long way.

With less than two weeks before Donald Trump takes office, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of changes to its content moderation practices on Facebook and Instagram, including ending fact-checking and other restrictions.

Politics and culture thus constitute something of a two-way street: Each is both downstream and upstream of the other. Both politics and culture are crucially important, and each of them greatly affects the other.

Trump and the hard-right House Freedom Caucus have been politically misaligned of late, according to reporting from Punchbowl News. The rift began when some caucus members chose to endorse Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley over Trump way back in the GOP primary. It’s only gotten worse since then.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram will be doing away with their fact-checking algorithms in favor of user-driven community notes like those used on X, formerly