{"id":17137,"date":"2025-01-07T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/why-did-mark-zuckerberg-end-facebook-and-instagrams-factchecking-program\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:40:06","slug":"why-did-mark-zuckerberg-end-facebook-and-instagrams-factchecking-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/why-did-mark-zuckerberg-end-facebook-and-instagrams-factchecking-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Mark Zuckerberg end Facebook and Instagram\u2019s factchecking program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social media giant enters a more partisan political era as its CEO pursues Donald Trump\u2019s approval<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a> is shifting to the right, following the prevailing political winds blowing through the United States. A more partisan era now looms for the social media giant and its corporate leaders, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> himself has few personal politics other than ambition.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, Meta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/07\/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content\">disbanded Facebook and Instagram\u2019s third-party factchecking program<\/a>. The company will also recommend more political content across its social networks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/07\/why-did-mark-zuckerberg-end-facebook-instagram-fact-checking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8219481d427d81c80f4f959d50ecaeb2781244e2\/0_227_4043_2424\/master\/4043.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5535629a8c32cc3ec40419b627742515\" title=\"Why did Mark Zuckerberg end Facebook and Instagram\u2019s factchecking program?\" \/>The social media giant enters a more partisan political era as its CEO pursues Donald Trump\u2019s approval<br \/>\nMeta is shifting to the right, following the prevailing political winds blowing through the United States. A more partisan era now looms for the social media giant and its corporate leaders, though Mark Zuckerberg himself has few personal politics other than ambition.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday morning, Meta disbanded Facebook and Instagram\u2019s third-party factchecking program. The company will also recommend more political content across its social networks. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social media giant enters a more partisan political era as its CEO pursues Donald Trump\u2019s approval Meta is shifting to the right, following the prevailing political winds blowing through the United States. A more partisan era now looms for the social media giant and its corporate leaders, though Mark Zuckerberg himself has few personal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/why-did-mark-zuckerberg-end-facebook-and-instagrams-factchecking-program\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why did Mark Zuckerberg end Facebook and Instagram\u2019s factchecking program?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}