President Trump repeated a number of well-trodden falsehoods on Friday in a grievance-fueled speech at the Justice Department, veering from prepared remarks to single out lawyers and prosecutors and assail the criminal investigations into him. His remarks, billed as a policy address, were wide-ranging, touching on immigration, crime and the price of eggs. Here’s a…
US President Joe Biden has said that Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program, previously criticised by Donald Trump, as “really shameful”. In a wide-ranging media interaction days before he demits office, Biden said the move by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of platforms like Facebook and Instagram, would allow “things that are simply not…
Meta said on Tuesday that it was ending its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps, in a stark sign of how the company was repositioning itself for the Trump presidency and throwing its weight behind unfettered speech online. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and…
Meta is ending its fact-checking program Meta will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram. It will instead rely on users to add notes to posts that may be false or misleading, similar to a system used on X. Follow our live coverage. The reversal is a stark sign of how Meta is…
Jan. 7, 2025, 3:38 p.m. ET President-elect Donald J. Trump at his Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Tuesday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times While Republicans largely cheered Meta’s announcement on Tuesday that it would effectively end its fact-checking program, several tech watchdog groups condemned the decision, warning of the potential for a surge in…
It was only a little more than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had few qualms about airing his politics. Earnest and optimistic — perhaps naïvely so — he rushed onto the national stage to discuss issues he cared about: immigration, social justice, inequality, democracy in action. He penned columns in national newspapers espousing his…