Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.

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

Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan.

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Zuckerberg was also seen wearing the Patek Philippe Grand Complications In-Line Perpetual Calendar 5236P-001 when he posted a selfie with his wife, Priscilla Chan. The watch costs $141,400, according to Patek Philippe's website.

Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.

The incoming administration was reportedly tipped off about the video, which can be understood as a Facebook-style targeted ad with an audience of one: Donald Trump, who has previously suggested that Mark “Zuckerschmuck” should be in jail,

If DC is a swamp, Meta is an entire universe of murky shadowy figures that have long worked to darken the light of Free Speech

Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that Meta would end its partnerships with third party fact-checkers and institute a "Community Notes" model.

O n Tuesday, 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? Elon Musk’s X.