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?

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.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook will roll back a number of its censorship policies to become a free speech platform. The Meta CEO said he would get rid of the social media platform's fact-checkers and replace them with a community notes system similar to the one used by Elon Musk's X,

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 is set to adopt a new direction for the social media giant, drawing inspiration from Elon Musk’s approach at X, formerly known as Twitter. In a sweeping series of changes, Zuckerberg aims to emulate X’s Community Notes feature,