meta is scrapping its thirdparty factchecking program and replacing it with Community notes written by users this is similar to the model used by Elon musk’s X the new system will be implemented in the US first and will be faced in over the next couple of months 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 meta said it plans to allow code more speech by lifting some restrictions on certain topics that are part of mainstream discussion including immigration and gender it wants to do this in order to focus on code severity violations Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the changes are in part sparked by political events including Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race zaker said that the elections felt like a Cod cultural Tipping Point towards once again prioritizing speech