Meta announced this week that it would dump fact-checkers in the US. While some experts say there could be broader implications, others caution it won't cost us a "golden age of truth" on platforms such as Facebook.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his social media policies after the Meta chief pledged to work with Trump to fight government "censorship".

Meta’s move comes at a critical moment. With Mr Trump’s return to power looming, the decision to scrap fact-checking feels deliberate. It’s hard to ignore the optics: a $1 million donation to Mr Trump’s inauguration fund, followed by a systematic dismantling of measures designed to combat misinformation.

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the role of the recent US elections in his thinking, saying they “feel like a cultural tipping point”.

With Wednesday’s decision, Mark Zuckerberg has cemented Silicon Valley’s radical facelift as it cosies up to President-elect Donald Trump.

Meta has slashed its content moderation policies, including ending its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram, aligning with the priorities of US president-elect Donald Trump.

Trump’s election as US president has forced Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to declare an end to political censorship on his social media platforms Facebook and Instagram. He’s now admitting what Meta long denied – that Facebook was censoring conservatives and the Right, sometimes under pressure from the Biden administration.

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent statements, in which he openly brands journalism and fact-checkers as “biased,” are just the culmination of a long war of attrition against journalism on Facebook. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has looked back at a decade of actions by Meta undermining professional journalism and access to reliable information,

Independent fact-checkers are a vital safeguard against the spread of harmful misinformation,' said the CEO of an Australian news outlet that is a Meta fact-checking partner.

WASHINGTON: A global network on Thursday cautioned that there would be real-world harm if Meta expands its decision to do away with fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, while refuting

Some 15,000 kilometres away from Washington DC, where tech is cosying up to Donald Trump, local start-ups are pondering whether to ride the anti-DEI wave.

Speaking to ANI, Nishikant Dubey called Zuckerberg's statement "alarming." He said such a statement shows that Zuckerberg is interfering in India's democracy.