One after another, the big bosses of American tech are lining up behind Donald Trump and the man who has, de facto, become his main political adviser, the libertarian Elon Musk, boss of Tesla, SpaceX and X.

The latest is Mark Zuckerberg. Less than two weeks before the Republican's inauguration for a second term, the founder of Meta – a company valued at $1.6 trillion on the stock market, with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – announced on Tuesday, January 7, a major shift toward Trump. Officially, in the name of freedom of expression. The recent election marked "a cultural tipping point" toward "prioritizing free speech," he said in a video.

Zuckerberg announced the return of political topics to his platforms, which host 3.3 billion active users worldwide, and the removal of fact-checking. "We've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship," said Zuckerberg. "We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X," he continued, at a time when many Trump voters find it difficult to trust these major platforms.

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