House Democrats are hammering Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, after the company announced the platform-wide end of its fact-checking program. The lawmakers said the shift is part of a larger

Instead, Meta will follow the lead of X under Elon Musk and rely on crowd-sourced Community Notes to provide additional context on posts. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with David Gilbert, a reporter at Wired who covers online disinformation and extremism, to learn more about Meta’s latest pivot.

Meta Platforms (META) founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces backlash following an announcement that the company would end its fact-checking program and add UFC CEO Dana White to its board. Employees are reportedly criticizing the tech CEO on the company's internal message board,

With Republicans back in control of both chambers of Congress and calling for new regulation of Big Tech, the Meta CEO is realigning with Trump.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg banned Donald Trump from Facebook and Instagram, saying the risks of allowing him on the platforms were “simply too great” after Trump repeatedly used the sites to broadcast election lies and cheer on the January 6 mob.

Meta leader Mark Zuckerberg‘s surprise announcement that his company’s platforms — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc. — would largely no longer fact-check most content drew both praise and derision online.