Meta Ends Fact Checking on Social Media Platforms [Video]

Meta Platforms (META) is ending third-party fact-checking programs on its platforms, starting in the U.S., a move CEO Mark Zuckerberg said is designed to restore free expression.

Facebook, Instagram and Threads will move to a community notes model, relying on contributing users to flag misinformation, Meta announced Tuesday. Elon Musk’s X platform operates on a similar model, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, said.

In a video, Zuckerberg said fact checkers have become “too politically biased and destroyed more trust than they’ve created.”

As part of the changes, Meta will “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse,” Zuckerberg said.

Meta plans to work with the administration of President-elect Donald Trump to “push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” Zuckerberg said. “The only way that we can …