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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.
Meta will no longer take DEI considerations into account for purposes of hiring, training and picking suppliers, according to Axios.
The "Late Show" host said the tech billionaire is racing to "kiss" Donald Trump's "ass" with the company's changes ahead of the president-elect's inauguration.
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are just beginning.
I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.
"We're replacing fact-checkers with Community Notes, simplifying our policies and focusing on reducing mistakes," Zuckerberg said on Tuesday. "Looking forward to this next chapter
Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.
Mark Zuckerberg wrote a post responding to intense post-election scrutiny about how Facebook was handling moderation. “The bottom line is: We take misinformation seriously,” he wrote. While it was crucial not to “mistakenly restrict accurate content,
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.