This month, Zuckerberg also announced that Meta will shut down its third-party fact-checking teams in an effort to “restore free expression” to its social media platforms. He justified the move by saying that many of the fact checkers had shown too much political bias and “destroyed more trust than they’ve created.”

Meta Platforms and most other U.S. stocks are rising Thursday following a rush of profit reports from some of the country’s most influential companies, but drops for Nvidia and Microsoft are keeping the market in check.