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Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram, and Meta platforms.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the current content moderation practices have “gone too far” and the company will focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying policies, and restoring free expression.

“We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said in a video posted Tuesday morning. “More specifically, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”

Meta will replace fact-checkers with a Community Notes model similar to X, allowing users to provide their own commentary on content.

“We went to independent, third-party fact-checkers,” Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan told Fox News Digital. “It has become clear there is too much political bias in what they choose to fact-check because, basically, they get to fact-check whatever they see on the platform.”

The company will also change some content moderation rules to allow more discourse on sensitive topics and plans to partner with the Trump administration to advance goals related to free expression and American business.

Source: Fox News