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X owner Elon Musk signaled to Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday after the CEO of Meta Platforms followed suit in eliminating fact-checking on its social media platforms.
X owner Elon Musk has welcomed Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking on Meta platforms with something like X’s Community Notes. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Reacting to news of Zuckerberg’s promise to “bring back” free speech to Facebook, Instagram and other Meta platforms by getting rid of fact-checking and replacing them with “Community Notes” similar to what Musk did on X, Musk responded: “This is cool.”
X CEO Linda Yaccarino also celebrated Zuckerberg’s move, writing on X that Community Notes has been “tremendously successful while free speech remains sacred.”
She added: “It’s a smart move by Zuck and something I expect other platforms to follow now that X has shown how powerful it is. Well done!”
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Fox News first reported that Meta finishing his fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to “restore freedom of expression” across its platforms, admitting that its current content moderation practices “have gone too far.”
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, President-elect Donald Trump said he thought Meta’s “presentation was excellent.”
“They came long waysaid Trump.
Trump’s comments come after CEO Meta Mark Zuckerberg he made the announcement in a video on Tuesday morning, saying his company will “return to our roots and focus on reducing errors, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms.”
Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Wednesday. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
Meta’s third-party fact-checking program was introduced after the 2016 election and has been used to “manage content” and misinformation on its platforms, largely due to “political pressure,” executives said, but acknowledged the system has “gone too far.”
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Meta’s chief global policy officer, Joel Kaplan, told Fox News Digital that Meta is also changing some of its own content moderation rules, particularly ones it feels are “too restrictive and don’t allow enough discourse on sensitive topics like immigration, trans issues and gender”.
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As for the timing of the changes, Kaplan told Fox News Digital that the company now has “a real opportunity.”
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“We have a new administration coming in that is far from pressuring companies to censor and [is more] a big supporter of freedom of expression,” Kaplan said, referring to the incoming Trump administration. “It brings us back to the values that Mark founded the company on.”
