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.

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

It’s also the latest indication that Zuckerberg is trying to buddy up to incoming president Donald Trump, and is in that respect becoming more like Trump’s current right-hand man in tech: Elon Musk.

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

Meta and its chief executive have come full circle on content moderation, taking advantage of Donald Trump’s tech-friendly approach to loosen the reins.

Elon Musk praised Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg's move to end fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, following Musk's lead after he implemented community notes on X.

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 announced its new policy, stating that getting varied voices on the platform brings out the good, the bad, and the ugly in free speech; nonetheless, the restrictions on topics hitherto banned are now being lifted, “allowing more speech.”

Zuckerberg wants Meta’s online platforms to put free speech over content moderation, as with Musk’s X. While freedom of expression is valuable, there’s a key test that social media posts must pass.

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.

The International Fact-Checking Network proposed crowdsourcing in conjunction with professionals, a "new model."