Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.

The Meta CEO announced changes to content moderation just in time for a familiar incoming presidential administration.

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

Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan.

Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.

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.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will now let users call gay people “mentally ill,” describe women as property and refer to transgender people as “it.” In an apparent attempt to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump,

The incoming administration was reportedly tipped off about the video, which can be understood as a Facebook-style targeted ad with an audience of one: Donald Trump, who has previously suggested that Mark “Zuckerschmuck” should be in jail,

The International Fact-Checking Network proposed crowdsourcing in conjunction with professionals, a "new model."

Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that Meta would end its partnerships with third party fact-checkers and institute a "Community Notes" model.