Facebook vs. The Facts: Has Mark Zuckerberg declared war on the truth?

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Mark Zuckerberg has announced he’s ditching fact checking on Facebook and across Meta platforms. This is starting in the US, but how far will it go? And how much worse will it make the content on his social media channels? Chris Jones speaks to tech journalist and LBC correspondent Will Guyatt to find out why the Facebook boss is making these changes, beyond just cosying up to Trump, and what their impact will be. • We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Chris Jones. Audio production: Tom Taylor. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://www.podmasters.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.9	Hello and welcome to The Bunker.
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0:55.5	There have been some changes at Meta, if you haven't noticed.
0:59.1	Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company would dramatically reduce the amount of censorship
1:03.5	and take a more personalized approach to political content across his sites, including Instagram and Facebook.
1:10.3	That move has been criticized by many
1:12.5	across the EU and beyond, but not Trump. He responded by saying that this move was probably
1:17.8	a response to the threats that he had been making to Zuckerberg previously. So what do all
1:22.9	these changes actually mean for users and the kind of content that will be tolerated on meta sites going
1:28.5	forward and will more social media sites follow suit in 2025 and beyond? Well Will Guy is one of the
1:35.3	UK's leading journalists when it comes to explaining anything tech and social media related
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