While campaigning for Donald Trump in October, Elon Musk claimed he could slash “at least $2 trillion” in government spending. Now that Musk has started laying the groundwork for his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, he’s not as confident.
Meta and its chief executive have come full circle on content moderation, taking advantage of Donald Trump’s tech-friendly approach to loosen the reins.
If you had any doubt that Meta was changing in order to please the new president, that's over now, Peter Kafka writes.
Tech and media experts told Fox News Digital that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be applauded for adopting a fact-checking system similar to Elon Musk's X.
Mark Zuckerberg’s alliance with Donald Trump proves just how low he’ll go - ANALYSIS: The Facebook and Instagram boss has shown just how deep he’s willing to stoop for the benefit of his commercial empire — and just how little his last eight years of promises really meant,
I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.
EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Trump reacted to Meta's move to end its fact-checking program on Facebook, Instagram and its other platforms, telling Fox News Digital that the company has “come a long way.
Last Thursday Mark Zuckerberg named Joel Kaplan as the company’s head of public policy. Kaplan is, of course, a Republican in good standing, stalwart friend of Brett Kavanaugh, and somewhere between friendly-toward and horny-for Trumpism.
Donald Trump is set to be sentenced by Judge Juan Merchan in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday morning after he was found guilty on all counts at his hush money trial last year – just 10 days before his second inauguration to the presidency.
When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer in 2009, it put fact-checkers on the map. Donald Trump’s MAGA movement gave them plenty of work. Now, Meta’s fact-checking retrenchment threatens to hollow out the industry.
There will be "real-world harm" if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg's claim such moderation amounts to censorship.