O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to adopt a new direction for the social media giant, drawing inspiration from Elon Musk’s approach at X, formerly known as Twitter. In a sweeping series of changes, Zuckerberg aims to emulate X’s Community Notes feature,

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Meta’s surprise decision to scrap its fact-checking partnerships blindsided journalists involved in the program, putting some out of work. Alan Duke, a former CNN journalist who runs a fact-checking organization hired by Facebook speaks to CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan about Meta’s new policy.