Some industry observers told ABC News that the ostensible softening toward Trump by big-tech corporations reflects a new business landscape that is both heavily influenced by the president-elect and increasingly defined by the development of energy-intensive artificial intelligence products.

The decision by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to end its fact-checking ... One worrisome possibility is that the change could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on Meta's apps, including misleading or out-of-context ...

Meta's end to fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram opens the floodgates for misinformation and disinformation, making climate disasters potentially worse.