Meta ends fact-checking program as it shifts closer to Trump and Elon Musk’s platform
Mark Zuckerberg’s company argues that its initiative to flag misinformation ‘became a tool to censor’ and will adopt an approach similar to community notes on X
Just days after Joel Kaplan, a former advisor to president George W. Bush and a close associate of President-elect Donald Trump, joined Meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s social network made a controversial decision: it ended its fact-checking program. The social media giant will cease using content moderators and, like its competitor X, will instead rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts. Kaplan took over from Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister, as head of global affairs just four days earlier, a move seen as part of Meta’s efforts to foster closer ties with Trump.
