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.

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.

Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook will roll back its fact-checking program. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

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.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced the company will end fact-checking and other restrictions on Facebook and Instagram.

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On the face of it, it’s great news that Facebook has seen the light on free speech. And when Mark Zuckerberg made his big announcement in a video statement on Tuesday, he certainly made it sound as if he meant it.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Donald Trump the day before announcing his social media platforms would end their fact-checking protocols