They were interviewing a dude from the oversight panel on NPR. He said, after being asked if it was due to the election:

MCCONNELL: Well, I’m now speaking just for myself. This is not the oversight board speaking, but I do think that there’s bad optics here, that it looks like and may be even the reality - I don’t know. But it certainly looks like this is buckling to political pressure. I would have liked to have seen these reforms laid out, you know, in more - in less contentious and partisan times so that they would be considered on the merits rather than looking like this is - you know, Donald Trump is president, and now they’re caving.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5253069/meta-oversight-board-co-chair-responds-to-companys-decision-to-end-fact-checking

Edit: grabbed actual source and quote instead of from memory

There are some other gems in there