The Daily Show’s host-of-the-week Desi Lydic and The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon used their respective shows on Comedy Central and NBC on Wednesday to attack Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his decision to ditch the company’s relationship with fact-checking companies. As Lydic and Fallon tell it, if someone calls themselves a fact-checker, they must be an unbiased observer of the truth who simply tells it like it is, and Zuckerberg’s move will be devastating for those who believe in truth.
Lydic began by declaring, “But knowing how much Trump lies, it’s more important than ever for everyone to rededicate themselves to the pursuit of truth.”
After a clip of CNN’s John Berman reporting on the news, Lydic resumed, “Or that! Guess you could just live your truth. That’s right. Facebook is ending fact-checking, as Mark Zuckerberg announced, apparently…
