Billionaires offer yet another warped inversion of reality feeding Trump's fascistic impulses

This week came the news from Mark Zuckerberg that META—Facebook, Instagram, and Threads—will end its fact-checking program.

Yes, the fact-checking that Donald Trump and MAGA didn’t like over the past eight years, put in place beginning in 2016 after Russian interference in our election. The fact-checking that continued—flawed and weak as it was—over the following years to fight the kind of misinformation that fed conspiracies like the Big Lie that helped fuel the attack on the Capitol in 2020.

"Mr. Zuckerberg, “the New York Times reports, “noted that 'recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.'" The Times made clear that Zuckerberg’s moves—all his moves—are meant to placate Trump.

Last week, Mr. Zuckerberg elevated [Joel] Kaplan, a longtime conservative and the highest-ranking Meta executive closest to the Republican Party, to the company’s most senior policy role. And on Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg announced that Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a close ally of Mr. Trump’s, would join Meta’s board.

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