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?

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”.

Meta's fact-checkers are pushing back against CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claim that ending the program will help curb censorship on the

The European Commission on Wednesday dismissed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claim that European Union (EU) laws and regulations on online content amount to censorship of social media platforms.

The EU has rejected claims by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that it is engaged with censorship. This follows Tuesday's shock announcement that the company would no longer use independent fact checkers in the US.