Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will replace fact checkers with ‘community notes’

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced Facebook and Instagram will replace third-party fact checkers with a system in the style of X’s community notes. Video by Mark Zuckerberg via Storyful

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00:00because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.

00:04More specifically, here's what we're going to do. First, we're going to get rid of fact checkers

00:10and replace them with community notes similar to X starting in the US. Second, we're going to

00:16simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration

00:21and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. What started as a movement

00:26to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with

00:32different ideas, and it's gone too far. Third, we're changing how we enforce our policies to

00:38reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We used

00:43to have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now, we're going to focus those

00:48filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations. And for lower severity violations,

00:54we're going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.

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