Republicans have heaped praise on Meta for eliminating its fact-checking program and scaling back its content restrictions ahead of President-elect Donald Trump ’s inauguration, touting the changes as a welcome step toward addressing their concerns over “censorship.”
I think we're doing the right thing,” he told me, “It’s just that we should've done it sooner.” Seven years later, Zuckerberg no longer thinks more moderation is the right thing. In a five-minute Reel,
The Meta CEO is remaking himself — and his company — as Trump sets a new tone for the country.
The Meta mogul is making moves that could curry favor with the president-elect, ending its DEI program, bashing "legacy media" and swapping in GOP-friendly lobbyists.
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.
Mark Zuckerberg has much bigger fences to mend with President-elect Trump than the Silicon Valley tech giants and other billionaires who have been making the trek to Mar-a-Lago since the November election.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political shift to the right ahead of the new Trump administration was months in the making.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Donald Trump the day before announcing his social media platforms would end their fact-checking protocols
An employee memo from Meta’s vice president of human resources Janelle Gale, which was obtained by Axios, announced five major changes to Meta’s “hiring, development and procurement practices,” amid the shifting “legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States”—i.e., the return of Donald Trump.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday appeared on Joe Rogan's show to lob bitter complaints at President Joe Biden's outgoing administration, as well as to heap praise on the incoming Trump administration.
The top billionaires of Silicon Valley have gone from supporting Democrats to being all in on Trump. What happened?