Y esterday morning, donning his new signature fit—gold chain, oversize T-shirt, surfer hair—Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social-media platforms are getting a makeover. H

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says "community notes" will now moderate content. That already happens on Elon Musk's X. Here's how they work — and don't.

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.

It’s also the latest indication that Zuckerberg is trying to buddy up to incoming president Donald Trump, and is in that respect becoming more like Trump’s current right-hand man in tech: Elon Musk.

Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook will roll back its fact-checking program. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta trust and safety workers will be relocated to Texas to prevent them from “censoring” users. Experts point to other advantages.

Meta announced its new policy, stating that getting varied voices on the platform brings out the good, the bad, and the ugly in free speech; nonetheless, the restrictions on topics hitherto banned are now being lifted, “allowing more speech.”

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

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.

While campaigning for Donald Trump in October, Elon Musk claimed he could slash “at least $2 trillion” in government spending. Now that Musk has started laying the groundwork for his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, he’s not as confident.

It wasn't just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration. Meta has relaxed its hate speech rules, raising concerns about vulnerable groups.