Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.

For all the talk of freedom, Mr Zuckerberg’s video was another example of the capture of American business by the bullying incoming president. Mr Trump has called Facebook an “enemy of the people” and threatened to ensure that Mr Zuckerberg “spends the rest of his life in prison”.

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

Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan.

Content moderation has always been a pit of despair for Meta. And now, Mark Zuckerberg's "apology tour" seems to be officially over.

Mark Zuckerberg's new freedom of speech policies mark a shift in Facebook's moderation, following years of scrutiny over alleged censorship and political bias.

I t feels like we’re in a new era now,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, as he announced sweeping changes to the firm’s social-media platforms in a video on January 7th. Two weeks ahead of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration,

The incoming administration was reportedly tipped off about the video, which can be understood as a Facebook-style targeted ad with an audience of one: Donald Trump, who has previously suggested that Mark “Zuckerschmuck” should be in jail,

Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that Meta would end its partnerships with third party fact-checkers and institute a “Community Notes” model.

Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.

Zuckerberg was seen wearing a Greubel Forsey Hand Made 1 on his left wrist while making the announcement.