How Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta to the right

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement Tuesday that he was ending professional fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram was the culmination of months of effort to position the social media giant for the conservative pressures of a second Trump administration. 

Zuckerberg, once a supporter of a handful of progressive causes, including fighting mass deportations, who repeatedly met with — and sometimes criticized — Barack Obama during his presidency, began dropping hints last summer that he was preparing to politically lean in on supporting Donald Trump, a maneuver he is now in the process of pulling off.