Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he decided to end Facebook and Instagram’s third-party fact-checking operation because it too closely resembled George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984.” Zuckerberg made the comment while appearing on “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Friday.
“I think people just felt like the fact checkers were too biased, not necessarily even so much in what they ruled — although sometimes I think people would disagree with that. A lot of the time, it was just what types of things they chose to even go and fact check in the first place,” he explained. “So I kind of think, after having gone through that whole exercise, it’s something out of, like, ‘1984’ — one of these books, where it’s just like, it really is a slippery slope.