Meta Ditches Fact-Checks For X-Style Community Notes—Zuckerberg Says It Will Restore ‘Free Expression’
January 7, 2025
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Meta will drop its fact-checking program and replace it with an X-style community notes feature, the social media giant’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday, saying the move will help restore “free expression” on the company’s platforms as he attacked governments and legacy media by accusing them of pushing for more censorship.
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In a video posted on Facebook, Zuckerberg said the company is going to get back to its “roots” and focus on “simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms.”
The Meta CEO then specified that the company would “get rid of fact-checkers” and replace them with “community notes similar to X,” starting first in the U.S.
Zuckerberg said the recent U.S. elections felt like “a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech.”
The billionaire added that the debate about “potential harms from online content” had led to Meta developing “complex systems” to moderate content, which led to “too many mistakes” and “too much censorship.”
This is a developing story.
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