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.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with US President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Semafor news website reported, citing a source familiar with the matter. Meta and Trump's transition team did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The fact-check change came alongside a set of sweeping policy and staffing refreshes at Meta, including the appointment of Trump ally Joel Kaplan to helm the Facebook parent company's policy department. NBC News reports that the company also changed its hate speech rules on the platform, now allowing users to call LGBTQ+ people mentally ill.

Meta's fact-checkers are pushing back against CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claim that ending the program will help curb censorship on the

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg's claim that fact-checking programs on Facebook veers into censorship is "false," says the International Fact-Checking Network.