Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he decided to end Facebook and Instagram's fact-checking operation because it too closely resembled "1984"

Mark Zuckerberg dismissed concerns about users leaving Meta platforms in response to the company's decision to end its U.S. fact-checking program, saying any exits would be "virtue signaling." In a reply on Threads to a user's post criticizing Meta's influence and suggesting that people feel trapped on the platform,

I'm counting on these changes actually making our platforms better," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.