Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is putting an end to its fact-check program and replacing it with a community-driven system akin to that of Elon Musk's X.

Meta’s return to political content, looser moderation rules, and Trump-friendly policies look a lot like Musk’s vision for X.

The tech billionaire said “community notes,” as used on Elon Musk's X, will be implemented on Facebook and Instagram instead.

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

Workers at the Silicon Valley giant voiced their displeasure on the company’s internal messaging forum on Tuesday.

In a five-minute video, Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed his social media empire’s subjugation to the future Trump administration in a radical shift to “Musk-style” policies on its platforms. In his new Meta purged of fact-checkers,

META boss Mark Zuckerberg is set to end the company’s ‘fact-checker’ programs in favour of a system used on rival site X. “Biased” independent moderators on Facebook and Instagram will be replaced

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

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that the company would be scrapping its fact-checking program, moving its moderation teams to Texas, and making Facebook more like Elon Musk’s X. Zuckerberg’s video was criticized by a lot of pundits as a shameless capitulation to the incoming Trump Administration.

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.

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.