You might not have X CEO Linda Yaccarino praising Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on your CES 2025 bingo card, but here we are. Speaking during a keynote address in Las Vegas, Yaccarino described Meta’s decision its long-standing fact-checking program and implemented community notes as “interesting” and “confirming.”

Yaccarino and X owner Elon Musk have both championed the crowd-sourced fact-checking feature that Meta now plans to emulate in its own services. “I think it’s really exciting when you think about community notes that are good for the world… “Mark, Meta, welcome to the party.”

Meta and Zuckerberg may find themselves in dubious company at the “party,” though. While X often expresses the number of users who contribute to Community Notes, some researchers point to errors in the feature. A last year from disinformation researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) noted that many misleading posts, including prominent posts from Musk himself, could rack up billions of views without receiving a correction.

It’s not surprising that Yaccarino would praise Zuckerberg’s move to cut ties with media institutions that have been its longtime partners for fact-checking content on Facebook and Instagram. Like his boss Musk, he doesn’t hide his disdain for “legacy media,” and he spends a significant portion of his time on stage against “legacy news designed to make you think a certain way .”

Zuckerberg’s move to loosen his content moderation standards is the latest sign of how far the Facebook founder is willing to go to realign himself with the political right as Donald Trump prepares to take office. He also added a prominent Trump supporter, UFC CEO Dana White, on Meta’s board and raised the company most prominent Republican executive in charge of global affairs.