Tonight, META announces a major change by ending their fact-checking program, what it all means on the eve of a second Trump administration.

Then Donald Trump Jr. visits Greenland, as his father says he won't rule out taking it by military force.

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We'll have a live report from Southern California as the 11th hour gets underway on this Tuesday night.

Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl. And on the morning of January 7th, 2021, Facebook's

chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that Donald Trump would remain banned from posting

to the social network after the capital riots took place the day before. That ban would last

for more than two years. Well, today, exactly four years later on the morning of

January 7, 2005, that same man, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that meta, which runs both Facebook

and Instagram, will end its fact-checking program. He said the decision was influenced by the

results of November's election.

My colleague, Hallie Jackson, has all of these very important details.

New fallout tonight after Meta's mega move to eliminate traditional fact-checking on the world's

biggest social media platform.

We've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too

much censorship. The fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more

trust than they've created, especially in the U.S. It's a significant shift from the fact

checking put in place after Donald Trump's first win. Instead, Meadow will now rely on community

notes. In other words, user input, similar to what Elon Musk's X platform does as part of a broader move to loosen up how meta moderates content.

The company will also lift restrictions on hot button topics like gender identity and immigration, allow more politics into people's feeds, and move its trust and safety team from liberal California to Ruby Red, Texas, all just days before President-elect Trump retakes the White House.

The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.

Some critics concerned.

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