Biden Slams Tech Platforms Such As Facebook And X For Kowtowing To Trump
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"Social media has given up on fact-checking,” the president said at his farewell address. “The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit."
President Joe Biden used his farewell address to warn Americans about a scourge of misinformation and social media giants’ failure to stop it, unleashing a blistering criticism as tech companies such as Facebook and X embrace the incoming Trump administration.
“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling an abuse of power,” Biden said Wednesday from the Oval Office. “The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media has given up on fact-checking.”
“The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit.”
His remarks come amid a shocking retreat from fact-checking on major social media platforms. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said earlier this month that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, would end its fact-checking program and replace it with a “community notes” model similar to that used by Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter).
In his announcement, Zuckerberg claimed Meta’s fact-checking teams had become “too politically biased.”
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