Meta to end factcheckers and reduce censorship, CEO says

Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will eliminate its fact-checking teams, replacing them with a community-based approach similar to X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.

The move, according to Zuckerberg, aims at prioritizing free speech, follows growing concerns over political bias in content moderation.

Zuckerberg stated that fact-checkers had undermined trust and that Meta’s content filters would now focus only on illegal and high-severity content, reducing censorship and errors.

Meta also plans to ease restrictions on topics like immigration and gender. While the change is seen as a shift towards prioritizing speech, the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology expressed concern about the potential spread of misinformation.