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?

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.

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

Elon Musk praised Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg's move to end fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, following Musk's lead after he implemented community notes on X.

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

Mark Zuckerberg claimed the title of the world’s third-wealthiest person Monday, but is still behind tech billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

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.”

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

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Irish MEPs have hit out at social media giants Meta and X, saying authorities at home and in Europe would hold them to account and protect countries from foreign interference in e