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Meta retreats from fact-checking content: what it means for businesses

The changes could make it easier for users to criticize brands or implicate them in conspiracies, and harder for brands to force takedowns.

Facebook creator and Meta CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg shook the world again today when he announced sweeping changes to the way his company moderates and handles user-generated posts and content in the U.S. but a public statement of this kind plainly speaking truth (the “fact checkers” were biased, and the policy was immoral) is really and finally the end of a golden age for the worst people alive.” However, others are less optimistic and receptive to the changes, viewing them as less about freedom of expression, and more about currying favor with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump (to his second non-consecutive term) and the GOP-led Congress, as other business executives and firms have seemingly moved to do.

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