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Many MAGA loyalists are not buying the changes at Meta after the social media giant said it will end its fact-checking program.
Mark Zuckerberg announced the reversal in a five-minute video message shared on his Facebook profile on Tuesday, less than two weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House.
Instead of the fact-checkers, Meta will rely on users to correct inaccurate and false posts, similar to the community notes on X.
But critics are slamming it as a desperate effort to curry favor with President-elect Trump.
Conservatives have long accused the social network of censoring conservative content online. And over the summer, Zuckerberg even admitted that the Biden White House pressured his company to ‘censor’ COVID content.
But following the announcement, some members of the MAGA movement questioned the timing of the change.
Close Trump ally and former Congressman Matt Gaetz, who had to …