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 founder Mark Zuckerberg announced new rules surrounding content moderation and censorship on Facebook and Instagram. After years of strict "trust and safety" policies, Zuckerberg says, "we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.

In his video announcing the changes, Zuckerberg conceded that moderators working at his social media properties—Facebook and Instagram—felt pressured after Donald Trump's 2016 win to address mainstream media concerns about the spread of alleged misinformation online.

Y esterday morning, donning his new signature fit—gold chain, oversize T-shirt, surfer hair—Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social-media platforms are getting a makeover. H

It wasn’t just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration.

Meta is eliminating fact-checkers in a move founder Mark Zuckerberg said will make free speech a priority on its social media platforms — including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — and align the multinational tech giant with a political tilt to the right with the recent election of Donald Trump.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices Tuesday, citing a shifting political and social landscape and a desire to embrace free speech.