That noise you heard Tuesday as you learned about Meta’s announcement that it would cease its fact-checking program was Mark Zuckerberg’s backbone flapping in the wind. Abandoning a commitment to ...

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political shift to the right ahead of the new Trump administration was months in the making.

Even before the election, the world’s richest man, billionaire Elon Musk, was inseparable from Trump. There’s also Musk’s one-time PayPal colleague, Peter Thiel, who has been a longtime benefactor to ...

Efforts to differentiate between fact and fiction are going out of style. First X got rid of the hardy folks who had to sift ...

Big Tech is working overtime to mend its relationship with Republicans as the party takes full control of Washington. It looks like it’s paying off. In a brief interview, Meta announced Tuesday it ...

Today on Rising, Robby and Niall disagree over whether Democrats’ are obsessed with covering the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook will no longer fact-check content and rely ...

Meta's shocking decision to get rid of its fact-checkers shows that Mark Zuckerberg is reshaping his company in some ...