While Meta enacts the X playbook, TikTok is on the verge of being declared illegal. Who wins? Probably not internet users.

This is proving to be a monumental week on the tech and politics beat. On Tuesday, Meta announced that it would be ending its third-party fact-checking program and cutting down its rules barring hate speech in a move clearly targeted at appeasing one person—incoming president Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court will also take up TikTok’s lawsuit against the US government and its attempts to ban the app nationwide. We are now less than two weeks out from the deadline for a sale or an extension, so the court doesn’t have a lot of time to save the app—if that’s even what it ends up doing.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-future-is-looking-bleaker-by-the-day/