Biden Calls Meta’s Ending of Fact-Checking ‘Shameful’

President Biden criticized Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, on Friday for deciding to abandon its fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram, calling it a “shameful” decision that undermines America’s commitment to telling the truth, the New York Times reports.

Said Biden: “The idea that, you know, a billionaire can buy something, and say, ‘By the way, from this point on, we’re not going to fact-check anything.’”

He added: “And you know, when you have millions of people reading, going online, reading this stuff, it is — anyway, I think it’s — I think it’s really shameful.”