Social media giant Meta on Tuesday announced a series of changes to its content moderation policy, including the elimination of its fact-checking program, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg said was an effort to embrace free speech. Ta.
“We're going back to basics and focusing on reducing mistakes, simplifying policies, and restoring freedom of expression on our platform,” Zuckerberg said. said in a video posted Tuesday morning..
“More specifically, this is what we are trying to do: Starting in the US, we will eliminate fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X.”
The change marks a big move for the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, and follows a series of other changes the company has made in recent weeks as President-elect Trump begins his second term later this month.
Meta's long-standing fact-checking program leverages third-party fact-checkers who moderate posts in more than 60 languages. The company said this practice eventually became too restrictive over the years.
“We want to reverse the mission creep that has caused the rules to become too restrictive and overly enforceable,” said Joel, Meta’s new head of global policy. Kaplan said:stated in a statement Tuesday.
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