Meta oversight co-chair says the company looks like it’s ‘buckling to political pressure’ by ending fact-checking program | CNN Business

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Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program looks like the company is “caving” to political pressures, said Meta’s oversight board co-chair Michael McConnell.

McConnell, who is a law professor at Stanford University, told NPR on Friday that he would have liked to have seen changes made during “less contentious and partisan times so that they would be considered on the merits rather than looking like this is, you know, Donald Trump is president and now they’re caving.”

Changes to Meta’s fact-checking program come within two weeks of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration and

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