The Meta CEO announced changes to content moderation just in time for a familiar incoming presidential administration.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to that of Elon Musk's X.

In a dramatic shift in content moderation policies, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram would no longer fact-che.

Meta's about-face on fact-checking shows how Musk has remade the world in his image.

Elon has been publicly trolling Sir Keir Starmer, which forced the Prime Minister to respond at a press conference. He indirectly accused Musk of spreading "lies and misinformation" about grooming in the UK, and of "cheerleading" for Tommy Robinson.

Sriram Krishnan racist post was met with widespread outrage, with many slamming the troll and expressing their disgust. An X user wrote, “Ironically, bone just reminded everyone how delicious Indian food is.

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Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the U.S. and replacing it with a system similar to the Community Notes on Elon Musk-owned X, the Facebook parent said on Tuesday.

Musk has been using this distribution channel since xAI launched its first version of the Grok large language model, adding features like trending story summaries and AI-generated questions on posts as well as releasing the Grok chatbot (initially) to X users exclusively.

O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.

Meta's decision to swap professional US fact-checkers with crowd-sourced moderation has raised fears that Facebook and Instagram could become magnets for misinformation similar to the Elon