Meta announced Tuesday that it is abandoning its third-party fact-checking programs on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads and replacing its army of paid moderators with a Community Notes model that mimics X’s much-maligned volunteer program, which allows users to publicly flag content they believe to be incorrect or misleading.
In a blog post announcing the news, Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, said the decision was taken to allow more topics to be openly discussed on the company’s platforms. The change will first impact the company’s moderation in the US.
“We will allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are
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