Mark Zuckerberg Met With Trump Just Before Announcing and End to Fact-Checking, Per GOP Senator

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Donald Trump the day before announcing his social media platforms would end their fact-checking protocols and instead pivot to a community notes model of moderation.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) revealed this interesting tidbit during a sit-down with Benny Johnson.

“Mark met with President Trump the day before he announced that they were going to change the way that they do censorship, essentially,” Mullin said.  “The big announcement that he made the other day, President Trump, and spoke about that, and Mark had been down to see the president several times already.”

Mullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter, also revealed that Zuckerberg had texted him multiple times to spar with him.

“Mark has actually reached out to me, texted me a couple times” he said. “The guys got into jujitsu rehab. He wants me to come down there and roll with him. He wants to try and he actually wants to get get in the cage and fight. He said, ‘I’d love for you to come down and spar if we can.’ I think that’d be great to go down there and do that.”

“So a lot of these people had changed because — here’s what I told President Trump—” Mullin started before Johnson interrupted with “Senator, you get a chance to kick Mark Zuckerberg’s ass out there? Senator! Senator!”

Zuckerberg’s pivot to a non-fact-checking policy has been seen as one of several steps he’s taken to ingratiate himself with the President-elect, perhaps motivated by an anti-trust trial set for April.

Watch above via The Benny Show