Mark Zuckerberg's dismantling of fact-checking and moderating safeguards on Meta ushers in a 'new era of lies'

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Readers discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s decisions to end fact-checking on social media, DEI program in Meta. Regarding the Jan. 8 front-page article “ Meta ends fact checks as it readies for Trump era ”:

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle criticized Meta for scrapping fact-checkers and appeared to make veiled references to Donald Trump.

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The change is best understood not as the product of reconsidered principles but as a political message with an audience of one: Donald Trump.

If you had any doubt that Meta was changing to please the new president, that's over now, Peter Kafka writes.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced the company will end fact-checking and other restrictions on Facebook and Instagram.