Facebook board member and billionaire Peter Thiel has extended his influence over CEO Mark Zuckerberg and was key in the controversial decision to continue accepting political ads ahead of the 2020 presidential election and to not fact-check them, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Thiel is a Republican who backed Donald Trump in 2016.
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