The news came after Mark Zuckerberg’s company faced critics who said “fact-checkers” suppressed free speech and censored information.

Meta will replace it with so-called community notes like on the X platform. The content moderation changes won’t be rolled out in the EU for now.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms.

Remember when Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were going to fight each other in a cage match, after Zuckerberg launched “Threads” a couple of years ago? It wasn’t just their physical prowess being tested,

Everybody wants to be my friend,’ Trump has boasted on social media. And when it comes to a cadre of influential tech bros, he’s not wrong.

Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the overhauling of Facebook's censorship policies, removing fact-checkers, and adopting a community-driven moderation system inspired by Elon Musk's X.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced major changes to the company's policies just weeks before Trump's inauguration.

Meta has ended its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram. Instead, it will implement community notes similar to the model used by X. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this move aligns with priorities of the incoming Donald Trump administration and aims to prioritize free speech over biased fact-checking.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying that the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program after seeing “this approach work on X,” according to an announcement penned by Meta’s new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas.