- Michael McConnell fears the decision by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to eliminate fact-checking will not work and argues the decision appears to reflect primarily parochial political concerns irrespective of the roughly 90% of Facebook's 3 billion monthly active users.
Meta’s elimination of fact-checking will not likely prove effective and lends the impression that it is caving to U.S. political pressure days before Donald Trump takes office, according to Michael McConnell, co-chair of Meta’s oversight board.
