In his statement, Anderson surprised many by announcing, “The plan has always been to wind down after completing our pipeline of projects.”
By Kiran N. Kumar
Hindenburg Research founder Nate Anderson has surprised the world signaling its shutdown and putting an end to his own “quest for truth” just days before Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Anderson is calling time on his campaign against powerful interests, marking a new era of reduced confrontation with governments and corporations, just days after Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg stirred controversy ending Facebook’s Third Party Fact-Checking Program.
When Facebook was blamed in 2016 for a torrent of fake news and conspiracy theories swirling around the first election of Trump, apologetic Zuckerberg quickly announced a series of steps to grapple with false and misleading information on Facebook, unveiling the Third Party Fact-Checking Program.
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Eight years later, unapologetic Zuckerberg, unilaterally announced that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, was ending its fact-checking program in lieu of free expression. The fact-checking system had led to “too much censorship,” he said.
Not long ago, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, known for his explosive document releases involving governments and corporations, also stepped back from the spotlight, apologizing and retreating from public...
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