Zuckerberg said the 2024 U.S. elections felt like “a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech.”

The change comes as Meta and social media companies broadly have in recent years reversed course on content moderation due in part to the politicization of moderation decisions and programs. Republicans have long criticized Meta’s fact-checking system and fact-checking in general as unfair and favoring Democrats.

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program after seeing “this approach work on X,” according to an announcement penned by Meta’s new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas.

Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the U.S. and replacing it with a "Community Notes" system similar to that on Elon Musk-owned X, the Facebook parent said on Tuesday. The Community Notes model will allow users on Meta's social media sites Facebook,