Facebook has courted controversy for years over a feature that provides supposed “fact checks” from primarily left-leaning sources that seemed to disproportionately target conservative content.
As President Donald Trump prepares for his return to the White House, however, the CEO of Facebook parent company Meta is promoting a new policy shift for the company that he says will prioritize free speech.
According to Fox News:
“We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a video posted Tuesday morning. “More specifically, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”
Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, joined Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning for an exclusive interview to discuss the changes.
“This is a great opportunity for us to reset the balance in favor of free expression. As Mark says in that video, what we’re doing is we’re getting back to our roots and free expression,” Kaplan told “Fox & Friends.”
Meta’s third-party fact-checking program was put in place after the 2016 election and had