I'm counting on these changes actually making our platforms better," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.

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”.

Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook will roll back its fact-checking program. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

As he argued that content moderation on Facebook and Instagram has “gone too far,” Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg sported an oversized black t-shirt, a gold chain and a luxury Greubel Forsey watch,

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

The Meta chief executive officer announced the changes to content moderation on Facebook and Instagram long sought by conservatives.

T he founder of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced substantial changes to the way that his company’s two most popular products, the social media networks Facebook and Instagra

Zuckerberg made the changes amid pressures from the Republican Party as they feel fact-checking on Meta platforms limits free speech.

Mark Zuckerberg is scrapping independent fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram. This decision affects the platform’s 3 billion active users worldwide and marks a significant shift in social media content moderation.

Elon Musk praised Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg's move to end fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, following Musk's lead after he implemented community notes on X.

O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.