Meta ending third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram Boston 25 News [Video]

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Tuesday that it is ending third-party fact-checking and removing speech restrictions across the social media platforms.

“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, Fox News reported. “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.”

Zuckerberg said that instead of relying on third-party groups and news organizations to check facts, Facebook and Instagram will rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts that may contain false or misleading statements according to The New York Times.