Meta Kills Fact-checking for Facebook, Instagram

Meta Kills Fact-checking for Facebook, Instagram

Meta is taking a controversial step in how it polices content on Facebook and Instagram, as it announced that it’ll be removing fact-checkers and replacing them with user-generated “community notes” that are similar to what X, formerly Twitter, is using.

“Experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives. This showed up in the choices some made about what to fact-check and how. Over time we ended up with too much content being fact-checked that people would understand to be legitimate political speech and debate,” said Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer for Meta in a post explaining the change.

“Our system then attached real consequences in the form of intrusive labels and reduced distribution. A program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor,” he added.

Meta said it will now simplify its content policies by removing restrictions on subjects like immigration and gender and implementing a new approach to policy enforcement that will focus on illegal and high-severity violations. It also announced that it will now be moving its trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas.

That’s not all the big changes at Meta today–Dana White, UFC CEO and close Trump ally, will be joining Meta’s leadership, joining the company’s board with two others–John Elkann, who leads European investment firm Exor, and Charlie Songhurst, a former Microsoft executive.

It’s believed that White’s onboarding with the largest social media firms is a way for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to mend ties with incoming US president Donald Trump.

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