Fa꧃cebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it's scrapping its third-party fact checking programme and replacing it with a Community Notes pro🔜gramme written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social media platform X.
Starting in the US, Meta will 💫end its fact checking programme with independent third parties. The company said it decided to end the programme because expert fact checkers had their own biases and too much content ended up being fact checked.
Instead, it will pivot to a Community Notes mo😼del.
“We've seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when p𓄧osts are potentially misleading and need more context,” Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said in a blog post.
The social media company also said plans to allow “more speech” by lifting some restriꦏctions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion in order to focus on illegal and “high severity violations” like terrorism, child sexual exploitation and drugs.
Meta said that its approach of building complex systems to manage content on its platforms has “gone too far” and🐷 has made “too many mistakes” and censored too much content.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the ch🌸anges are in part sparked by of Donal♌d Trump's presidential election victory.
“The 🤡recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping poi🎀nt towards tower once again prioritising speech,” Zuckerberg said in an online video.
