Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced the company will end fact-checking and other restrictions on Facebook and Instagram.

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are just beginning.

These changes will affect Facebook, Instagram and Threads – three of the world's largest social media platforms with a combined user base exceeding three billion. In a video statement, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the fact-checkers "have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US".

Less than two weeks before the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, Meta is moving away from its third-party fact-checking program — a cornerstone of its platforms since 2016 — in an effort to return to its “fundamental commitment to free expression,

If you had any doubt that Meta was changing in order to please the new president, that's over now, Peter Kafka writes.