Meta Platforms will end fact-checking across all platforms, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday. The fact-checking program, which began in December 2016, will be replaced on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads by a “Community Notes” feature.

Zuckerberg said the 2024 U.S. elections felt like “a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech.”

Social media giant Meta on Tuesday announced a series of changes to its content moderation policies, including the elimination of its fact-checking program, in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg said was an

Social media giant Meta announced Tuesday a significant rollback of its content moderation policies, including the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.Zuckerberg said that "fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created,

Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore free expression" across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms, admitting its current content moderation practices have “gone too far.

The social media mogul said Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram will shift to a community notes model and "work with President Trump" to push back on governments going after U.S. companies.