Stephen Colbert on Thursday mocked Mark Zuckerberg’s modifications to Meta after the tech billionaire introduced that the corporate would trash its fact-checking program in favor of a “group notes”-like system for posts, just like that of X.
“No, don’t belief the group. The worst half about social media is different folks,” Colbert quipped.
The “Late Present” host famous that Zuckerberg is becoming a member of an intensifying race to “kiss” President-elect’s Donald Trump’s “ass” after he revealed that Meta firms — like Instagram and Fb — would dispose of a fact-checking program that the CEO dubbed “too politically biased.”
Zuckerberg, who joins different Silicon Valley billionaires trying to apple-polish Trump forward of his inauguration, met with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago in November and likewise donated $1 million to his inauguration fund.
Previous to Trump’s latest election win, Trump reportedly accused Zuckerberg of getting “steered” Fb in opposition to him within the 2020 election and threatened him with spending the “remainder of his life in jail” had been he to “cheat” within the 2024 contest.
Colbert, on Thursday, highlighted how different individuals are the “worst” half about social media platforms by turning to an “actual Facebook post” from NPR highlighting two big pandas residing it up within the snow on the Nationwide Zoo.
“So after all, any person commented, ‘Every day reminder that the US is sending tax payer funds to the Taliban, weekly,’” the “Late Present” host famous.
“The pandas can’t make it easier to with that, my man. They don’t even know how to have sex.”
Watch extra of Colbert’s Thursday monologue beneath.
