In a sign of how desperate Silicon Valley is becoming to get back in the good graces of President-elect Donald Trump, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook will close its “fact-checking” department later this month, bringing to an end the controversial practice that saw conservatives silenced during much of the pandemic.
Zuckerberg, 40, made the announcement in a video released by the company while Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, appeared on “Fox & Friends” to share additional details. “We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg says in the video, a copy of which was obtained by Fox News. “More specifically, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”
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Here is the full video from Mark Zuckerberg announcing the end of censorship and misinformation policies.
I highly recommend you watch all of it as tonally it is one of the biggest indications of “elections have consequences” I have ever seen
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