The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States brings with it questions of anticipated changes. In the midst of this, Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a monumental decision.
Mark Zuckerberg has decided to end the Meta Fact Check Program and revise the censorship policy. Additionally, he's moving towards a community notes model inspired by Elon Musk's X platform.
With this decision, all platforms under Meta, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, will no longer have a Fact Check Program.
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The community notes model is what fueled the popularity of Elon Musk's X platform (formerly Twitter). Meta’s Chief Global Officer, Joel Kaplan, observed the success of this model on the X platform. This model empowers their community to decide what might be potentially incorrect.
Following Mark Zuckerberg's decision, newly-elected President Donald Trump seems somewhat pleased. When a group of reporters asked if he thought this was a response to his threats against Zuckerberg, he responded, 'Perhaps, yes.'
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According to a New York Times report, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that many errors were found in the fact-checking process of Facebook's moderation issues. Reports cited videos indicating that fact-checkers were politically biased.
The fact-checking program on Meta, which began when the company was called Facebook, was launched in 2016. It relied on third-party fact-checkers to identify and label misinformation.
