Social media giant Meta announced a series of changes to its content moderation policies Tuesday, including the elimination of its fact-checking program. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was an effort to embrace freedom of expression.
“We will go back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring freedom of expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said in a video posted Tuesday morning.
“To be more specific: First, starting in the United States, we will eliminate fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X.”
The changes mark a major shift for the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, and follow a series of other changes the companies have made in recent weeks as President-elect Trump begins his second term in office later this month. no see.
For many years, Meta’s fact-checking program has been assisted by third-party fact-checking programs that moderate posts in more than 60 languages. The company said this practice ended up restricting posts too much over the years.
“We want to undo mandates that are too restrictive and prone to over-enforcement,” Joel Kaplan, Meta’s new head of global policy, said in a statement Tuesday.
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