Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political shift to the right ahead of the new Trump administration was months in the making.

Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.

Meta leader Mark Zuckerberg‘s surprise announcement that his company’s platforms — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc. — would largely no longer fact-check most content drew both praise and derision online.