The Associated Press (AP) 鈥� Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it's scrapping its third-party fact checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by .
Starting in the U.S., Meta will end its fact checking program with independent third parties. The company said it decided to end the program because expert fact checkers had their own biases and too much content ended up being fact checked.
Instead, it will pivot to a Community Notes model.
鈥淲e鈥檝e seen this approach work on X 鈥� where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context,鈥� Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said in a blog post.
The social media company also said plans to allow 鈥渕ore speech鈥� by lifting some restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion in order to focus on illegal and 鈥渉igh severity violations" like terrorism, child sexual exploitation and drugs.
Meta said that its approach of building complex systems to manage content on its platforms has "gone too far" and has made 鈥渢oo many mistakes鈥� and censored too much content.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the changes are in part sparked by of .
鈥淭he recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards tower once again prioritizing speech,鈥� Zuckerberg said in an online video.
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