1-7-25 Hour 2 - Facebook loses Fact Checkers

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In hour 2, Chris talks more about Mark Zuckerburg discussing changes coming to META, meaning Facebook and Instagram, claiming to drop Fact Checkers in favor of Free Speech and Community notes, but will he DO it? For more coverage on the issues that matter to you, download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in love on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday To join the conversation, check us out on X @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.0	Here's some troubling news.
0:35.6	This morning met as CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes for the company,
0:41.5	including get this, the end of its fact checking program for Facebook and Instagram.
0:49.4	It's going to be replaced with a system similar to the community notes that's found on the social
0:55.5	media platform acts.
0:58.5	Oh, no, very disturbing news, very troubling news.
1:02.4	Mark Zuckerberg is going to make some kind of an effort to defend free speech in America.
1:10.6	And Joe Scarborough at MSDNC morning joke, he's against it.
1:14.6	He's angry about it.
1:16.5	How dare Zuckerberg say that he will defend free speech and at least tap the brakes on their censorship regime at Instagram and Facebook
1:28.0	because the little fascist, Joe Scarborough,
1:32.0	he's a total fake, a fraud.
1:34.9	He's a former Republican member of the House of Representatives.
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