Good evening. I'm Ari Melbler. Our top story right now is a huge tech and media company yielding to Donald Trump's demands, ousting fact checkers, crediting Trump's election victory, and taking an unusual step of adding a Trump loyalist to its board.

Now, I'm going to get into this right now. It's a striking development for information,

politics, and democracy, and it would be true if this were just news about a single outlet,

like a newspaper or a single news channel. But it's actually far broader. This is about

Facebook's parent company, Meta, which is one of the 10 largest companies on Earth,

over a trillion dollar company.

It reaches about 3 billion, 3 billion people with a B.

It is, of course, run by Mark Zuckerberg, who is the third richest person on earth.

He recently met with President-elect Trump and Mar-A-Lago.

This news is breaking today with a Zuckerberg video and a rollout on Fox News.

We're going to get rid of fact-checkers.

The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point.

There's an opportunity here with a new president taking office.

We're going to work with President Trump.

The message is clear.

Get rid of the fact-checkers that Trump doesn't like,

reflect the tipping point of the win, as Zuckerberg called it. And remember, most voters use

Facebook or Instagram. So these changes will shape the information and whether it's fact-checked

or not that most people get in this coming

era. It is telling and should be noted when powerful companies proclaim they are ditching

fact-checking pursuant to a political agenda. Now, studies had shown the fact-checking that is being ditched that I just

showed you, and I'm going to show you more of what Zuckerberg says. It did work. It cut down on

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