Meta to scrap fact-checkers in favor of ‘free expression’
The social media company will switch to a community notes model similar to the X platform’s, Meta said.
Social media giant Meta, formerly Facebook, plans to replace third-party fact-checkers with a community notes model akin to rival X’s to promote “free expression,” according to a Jan. 7 announcement.
Meta will also lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse” to focus enforcement on “illegal and high-severity violations” and enable users to “take a more personalized approach to political content,” Meta said.
“In recent years we’ve developed increasingly complex systems to manage content across our platforms, partly in response to societal and political pressure to moderate content. This approach has gone too far,” according to Meta’s blog post.
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Author: Alex O’Donnell
