Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking so the internet teaches him a brutal lesson in 'facts'

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this week that the company’s social media platforms will no longer have independent fact-checkers, a fact that internet trolls ran with to hilarious results.

In a video posted on Tuesday, not only did Zuckerberg announce that he is rolling back fact-checking that kept Instagram, Facebook, and Threads from becoming a haven for hate speech and misinformation, but he said that he was planning to corroborate with President-elect Donald Trump to oppose international regulations of social media companies after meeting with the MAGA leader at Mar-a-Lago and donating $1 million to his inauguration. Bluesky is look better everyday!

“We’re going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse,” he said. “What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and it’s gone too far.”

Because Zuckerberg moral fortitude appears to be the equivalent of a used piece of gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe, this week Meta also announced that the social media juggernaut was making sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, granting users the ability to post hate speech about race, nationalities, ethnic groups, and of course, sexual orientation and gender identity, claiming that it’s doing this because these topics are often part of the political discourse.

To the delight of Zuckerberg haters everywhere, people on the internet decided to troll the Meta founder and his newly fact-checking free social media platforms by posting the most outrageous and bonkers “facts” about him. These included outrageously hilarious lies about him and faux obituaries with fun facts like Zuckerberg having “his head surgically removed, flown to an undisclosed location in Germany and Cryogenically frozen” and dying after a “longtime battle with werewolf gonorrhea.” Yep, that checks out!

Keep scrolling to see the funniest fake obituaries and “facts” clowning on Mark Zuckerberg.

"Now I don't know who to believe."

"Is it true, Mark? No fact checkers in place!"

"Important News: Mark Zuckerberg was found dead yesterday. Despite rumors that he had Corona and was dying of syphilis, I have it on good authority that he was mauled to death by an escaped albino tiger with only three legs & a bad eye. Do NOT fact check me. I have free speech."

"Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – who died of a drug overdose in his Californian home today – says it is not Facebook’s role to be the arbiter of truth for everything people post online."

"BREAKING: shortly after announcing that he would eliminate fact-checking on his social media platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promptly divorced his wife of 13 years, Priscilla Chan, and married Emmy Award winner Jonathan Van Ness."

"Putting things to the test on instagram."

"Meta CEO and dog fucker Mark Zuckerberg has said that his platforms don’t need fact-checkers. So to celebrate this win for free speech, we wanted to relive his best quotes."

“'At press time, Zuckerberg had reportedly died after a longtime battle with werewolf gonorrhea.' It was always going to bite him in the end."

"Shortly after announcing he would eliminate fact-checking on his social media platform, Mark Zuckerberg was found deceased in an under-aged Thailand brothel, where his head was then surgically removed, flown to an undisclosed location in Germany and Cryogenically frozen."

“This is an updated version of the article: Mark Zuckerberg – Dead at 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts”

"Just saw the news that Mark Zuckerberg Will Stop Fact Checking on his platforms. The response has been pretty funny lol"

"No more fact-checking, promises horse-f**ker Mark Zuckerberg."

"Fact check: Mark Zuckerberg is a doppelganger for my middle-aged lesbian neighbor."

"Someone told me they read on Meta that he had a large number of goats with him, many of them underaged. I think he will regret ending fact checking. It will backfire in his face."