Foreign It's Wednesday, January 8th.
I'm Jane Coston and this is what a day.
The show where I'm asking Mark Zuckerberg, hey, how exactly do Trump's foods taste?
On today's show, Trump gives his first presser of the new year.
And of course he had a lot to say.
And two murderers on death row tell President Biden to keep keep his commutation.
Let's get into it.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company is changing the way it moderates content on its platforms, Facebook, Instagram and threads.
In a video he posted Tuesday, Zuckerberg said the company is going to prioritize, quote, free expression by dismantling the fact checking program.
It started to curb misinformation.
Zuckerberg pointed to President Elect Trump's win as a reason for the change.
The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.
So we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.
Zuckerberg says that instead of using news organizations and other third party groups to fact check content, Meta will leave it up to users to flag false or misleading information in community notes, just like the policy Trump's first buddy, Elon Musk, implemented over at Twitter.
Holocaust denial.
Just a new opportunity for fun conversations on the Internet.
Zuckerberg even admitted that more problematic content will now appear on Meta's platforms.
The reality is that this is a trade off.
It means we're going to catch less bad stuff, but we'll also reduce the number of innocent people's posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.
What could go wrong?