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.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Trump a day ahead of announcing the social media network will eliminate its fact-checking program to

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.

In many cases, the tech honchos sat in front of Trump’s cabinet nominees and Republican lawmakers, possibly signaling a partnership that could define his second administration.

Among the guests at Donald Trump's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. today were three billionaire tech CEOs: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. They were also joined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday, according to an official involved with planning the event. They will have a prominent spot at the ceremony,

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.”

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.

In July 2024 Truth Social post, Trump vowed to jail Zuckerberg and other "election fraudsters" if elected. The GOP had it out for Zuckerberg's $400 million "Zuckerbucks" initiative during the 2020 ...