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President-elect Trump said Tuesday that social media giant Meta has made progress as a company after announcing it would eliminate its fact-checking program.
“Honestly, I think they’ve come a long way — Meta, Facebook, I think they’ve come a long way,” he said, adding that he watched a Fox interview with Meta’s head of policy, Joel Kaplan, and to be “awesome”.
Trump then responded “probably” when asked if CEO Mark Zuckerberg is responding directly to threats the president-elect has made against him.
Goal announced a series of changes to its content moderation policies in what Zuckerberg said was an effort to embrace free speech.
The changes, which come just weeks before Trump is sworn in, mark a major step for the parent company of Instagram and Facebook. Zuckerberg in his announcement cited the recent election as a driving force behind the company’s decision, criticizing “governments and legacy media” for pushing the company to “censor more and more.”
The changes will be rolled out to both Facebook and Instagram, along with Threads. Meta’s fact-checking program was aided by third-party fact-checkers who moderated posts in more than 60 languages, but the company has said the practice eventually became too restrictive.
When tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is a close Trump ally, bought X, then known as Twitter, in 2021, he implemented a system that relies on community notes.
Meta also announced this week that Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO and President Dana White, another Trump ally, will join the company’s board of directors.
