Meta (NASDAQ: META) has announced plans to ditch third-party fact-checkers on its platform, opting to replace them with community notes as it leans away from its seven-year censorship policy.
According to Meta’s blog post, the social media giant is overhauling its content policy for users across its platforms in an effort to promote free speech. Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan unveiled a new policy direction for the company by shuttering its fact-checking program in favor of community notes.
Launched in 2016, Meta gave the responsibility of fact-checking on its platforms to independent experts but biases affected the system’s credibility.
“Experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives,” said Kaplan. “This showed up in the choices some made about what to fact check and how.”
Aware of the glaring shortcomings, the company says it will steal a pagefrom X (formerly Twitter) with its Community Notes system. Going forward, Meta …