Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to that of Elon Musk's X.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says "community notes" will now moderate content. That already happens on Elon Musk's X. Here's how they work — and don't.

The change under consideration, which Musk says is for aesthetics, would remove vital information from the X timeline and potentially exacerbate the site's issues with misinformation.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta trust and safety workers will be relocated to Texas to prevent them from “censoring” users. Experts point to other advantages.

Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook will roll back its fact-checking program. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

According to The Wall Street Journal, this decision was the result of Zuckerberg’s own personal experience with Facebook. In November 2023, the Meta CEO posted about a knee injury he sustained while training for an MMA fight.

Meta announced its new policy, stating that getting varied voices on the platform brings out the good, the bad, and the ugly in free speech; nonetheless, the restrictions on topics hitherto banned are now being lifted, “allowing more speech.”

Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

While Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk never did face off in that cage match, "Uncle Elon" has bested Zuck in the political arena, becoming one of the most powerful unelected figures in modern US history.

He has leveraged his political ambiguity to strengthen Meta, with consequences for the future of Silicon Valley and for the truth.

Zuckerberg’s video was criticized by a lot of pundits as a shameless capitulation to the incoming Trump administration. In his monologue Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel gave his own thoughts.