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Mark Zuckerberg And Meta Are Finding New Ways To Kiss Trump's Ass


Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will end it's fact-checking system in favor of a "Community Notes"-based model.

This week, Zuckerberg escalated his overtures to Trump’s incoming administration, announcing the appointment of UFC CEO and MAGA diehard Dana White to the company’s board of directors, and releasing a video outlining major changes to Facebook’s fact checking policies. If there were any doubts that the changing policies were meant to appease Trump, who just a few months ago threatened to jail Zuckerberg over accusations of election interference, newly minted Meta Chief of Global Affairs Joel Kaplan lauded the incoming president in an exclusive interview with Fox News on Tuesday morning. In his Tuesday interview, Kaplan added that Elon Musk, who now appears to be acting as a kind of unelected co-president, played “an incredibly important role in moving the debate and getting people refocused on free expression, and that’s been really constructive and productive.”

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