What’s pushing Zuckerberg to cozy up with Trump ahead of inauguration

Published January 11, 2025 12:45pm ET



Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has quickly reworked major company policies ahead of President-elect Donald Trump entering office, a strategic move as Meta stares down a new administration.

The changes at Meta — which owns Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp — are a fairly notable departure from company policy under the Biden administration. For instance, the company changed its fact-checking system towards a model more similar to Elon Musk’s community notes system on X, effectively killing its existing fact-checking program.

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