Meta scraps its longstanding fact-checking program in the United States, as its CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to be mending fences with Donald Trump’s incoming second administration.
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00:00Meta scraps its long-standing fact-checking program in the United States as its CEO Mark
00:06Zuckerberg appears to be mending fences with Donald Trump's incoming second administration.
00:11This is Meta's biggest overhaul of its approach to managing political content.
00:16First, we're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar
00:21to X, starting in the US.
00:23The changes will affect Facebook, Instagram, and threads.
00:27Former fact-checking network head Angie Drobnik-Holland challenges Zuckerberg's depiction of its members
00:32as biased and censorious, saying fact-checking journalism has never censored or removed posts.
00:38It added information and context to controversial claims, and debunked hoax content and conspiracies.
00:45Nonprofit Center for Information Resilience co-founder Ross Burley says the move seems
00:49to be more about political appeasement than smart policy.
00:53He says this is a major step back for content moderation at a time when disinformation and
00:58harmful content are evolving faster than ever.
01:01Meta donated $1 million to Donald Trump's inaugural fund, a departure from its past
01:06practice.
01:07Trump once threatened to send the Meta CEO to prison.