Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is bending the knee to the incoming Trump administration, doing away with their third-party fact checking program which kept watch over misinformation on their platforms (to dubious success, admittedly). He claimed this announcement was about free expression, but make no mistake: this is about capitulating in advance to the demands of Trump and the far right, who have fought for years against any attempt to label their lies as misinformation.