Linda Yaccarino at Meta Ends Fact Check: ‘Welcome to the Party’

You probably didn’t have Company X CEO Linda Yaccarino praising Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on your CES 2025 bingo card, but here we are. Speaking during a keynote speech in Las Vegas, Yaccarino described Meta’s decision Long-standing fact-checking program and implementing community feedback as “exciting” and “validating”.

Both Yaccarino and X’s owner, Elon Musk, have championed the crowd-sourced fact-checking feature that Meta now plans to emulate on its own services. “I think it’s really exciting to think that community feedback is good for the world… and it couldn’t be more validating than seeing Mark and Meta realize that,” Yaccarino said. “Mark, Meta, welcome to the party.”

However, Meta and Zuckerberg may find themselves in questionable company at the “party.” While X often touts the number of users who contribute community feedback, some researchers have pointed out flaws with this feature. A Last year, disinformation researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) noted that several misleading posts, including prominent ones from Musk himself, could amass billions of views without receiving a correction.

It’s not at all surprising that Yaccarino applauded Zuckerberg’s move to cut ties with media organizations that have long been his partners in fact-checking content on Facebook and Instagram. Like her boss Musk, she made no secret of her disdain for “old media,” and spent much of her time on stage attacking “old news that is designed to make you think a certain way.”

Zuckerberg’s move to relax his content moderation standards is the latest sign of how far the Facebook founder is willing to go to realign himself with the political right as Donald Trump prepares to take office. Another prominent Trump supporter, UFC CEO Dana White, also added: To the dead board The company filed Most prominent Republicans Executive Director of Global Affairs Department.