“Shameful”: Joe Biden Slams Meta & Mark Zuckerberg For Dropping Fact Checking In What Could Be Outgoing POTUS’ Last Press Conference

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The outgoing POTUS took to the bully pulpit Friday while the CEO of Meta went on Joe Rogan today with different takes on facts and the truth. “Telling the truth matters,” Joe Biden said today in a critical presidential response to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta pulling the plug on fact checking in what is widely seen as more sucking up to Donald Trump.

In what may be his final press conference at president, Biden spoke on a wide range of topics after giving brief remarks on his economic legacy.

With a rare back and forth with the White House press corps, Biden touched on whether he could have beaten his now predecessor and successor in last year’s election, if VP Kamala Harris should run again in 2028 (“That would be a decision for her to make”), the war in Ukraine, pardons and domestic terrorism.

However, it was the news made by Meta earlier this week on Fox News where it revealed it planned to abandoned fact checking on Facebook and Instagram that really seemed to get under the 82-year-old Biden’s skin. “The whole idea of walking away from facts checking, as well as not reporting anything having to do with discrimination … I find to be just contrary to American justice … the way we talk about one another,” Biden said of Meta’s latest Trump-leaning move. “It’s just completely contrary to everything America is about.” “We want to tell the truth, we haven’t always done it in our nation,” the president said. “We want to tell the truth.