Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and more, is moving to a community notes program over third-party fact-checkers. As part of its changes, Meta is following the lead of Elon Musk's X and moving trust and safety teams from California to Texas and other U.

The tech giant’s decision to end the program comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeks to mend ties with the incoming Trump administration.

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta is moving its key content policy team to Texas, according to an announcement that focused on the social media giant moving to community notes and away from third-party fact-checking.

Meta announced it would move its content reviewers and policy writers from California to Texas and other areas.

The social media giant, whose founder billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to make nice with the incoming Donald Trump presidential administration, isn’t stopping there. It’s also shipping its “trust and safety” moderation team out of its liberal Bay Area headquarters and sending it to conservative Texas, as well as other unspecified states.

Meta is eliminating fact-checkers in a move founder Mark Zuckerberg said will make free speech a priority on its social media platforms — including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — and align the multinational tech giant with a political tilt to the right with the recent election of Donald Trump.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms.

As we work to promote free expression, I think that it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there’s less concern about the bias of our teams,’ according to the Meta CEO.

Meta will soon overhaul its content moderation system, including the removal of fact-checkers, a dramatic reduction in censorship, and a shift towards recommending more politically charged content on its platforms,