The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, Jan. 15, edition that when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would cease its fact-checking efforts, it appeared to cater to authoritarianism and placate U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, who praised the decision. The Globe's guest columnist Joel Westheimer writes that while it is easy to be outraged at Mr. Zuckerberg, his announcement highlights a deeper issue: the privileged world of modern plutocrats. Social norms govern behaviour for most people, setting limits on what we deem acceptable. However, those norms are no longer the same across different social and economic strata. We would like to believe that commonly held norms reflect ideals of fairness, decency and accountability. Mr. Zuckerberg and his fellow plutocrats, however, share their own set of norms that privilege shareholder value, political expediency and the maintenance of their unparalleled influence. These norms, values and perceptions of what is acceptable behaviour are shaped not by the needs of democracy or society, but by the insulated, self-reinforcing logic of their own milieu -- a logic wherein bowing to a fascist seems reasonable, even admirable. Plutocrats of our age should not be above accountability.