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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”.

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

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

Fact-checking firms that teamed with Meta are refuting CEO Mark Zuckerberg's suggestion linking their work to censorship.

WASHINGTON: Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claim that the fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram has veered into censorship is "false", the International Fact-Checking Network said Thursday.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off criticism that his new policy that does away with third party fact-checking and censorship will alienate users — insisting that anyone who quits company platforms Facebook,