Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."

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

Instead, Meta will follow the lead of X under Elon Musk and rely on crowd-sourced Community Notes to provide additional context on posts. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with David Gilbert,

House Democrats are hammering Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, after the company announced the platform-wide end of its fact-checking program. The lawmakers said the shift is part of a larger trend across tech and media companies to curry favor from President-elect Trump,

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President-elect Trump a day ahead of announcing the social media network will eliminate its fact-checking program to prioritize free speech.

Zuckerberg's response to the Threads user named Mary-Frances Makichen, who has 253 followers and is a "Spiritual Director" and author according to their bio, came just one day after Meta announced it would replace its third-party fact-checking partnerships with a crowdsourced Community Notes system similar to the one used by X.

The Spectator contributor Terry Barnes lauds Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg for acknowledging the changing of the tides by scrapping fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram in the US.