Stephen Colbert Has A Brutal Community Note For Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Changes
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The "Late Show" host said the tech billionaire is racing to "kiss" Donald Trump's "ass" with the company's changes ahead of the president-elect's inauguration.
Stephen Colbert on Thursday mocked Mark Zuckerberg’s changes to Meta after the tech billionaire announced that the company would trash its fact-checking program in favor of a “community notes”-like system for posts similar to that of X.
“No, do not trust the community, the worst part about social media is other people,” Colbert quipped.
The “Late Show” host noted that Zuckerberg is joining an intensifying race to “kiss” President-elect’s Donald Trump’s “ass” after he revealed that Meta companies — like Instagram and Facebook — would do away with a fact-checking program that he dubbed “too politically biased.”
Zuckerberg, who joins other Silicon Valley billionaires trying to apple-polish Trump ahead of his inauguration, met with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago in November and also donated $1 million to his inauguration fund.
Prior to Trump’s recent election win, Trump reportedly accused Zuckerberg of having “steered” Facebook against him in the 2020 election and threatened him with spending “rest of his life in prison” were he to “cheat” in the 2024 contest.