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Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

Facebook and Instagram will instead rely on "community notes" from its users, an approached pioneered by X.

Mr Kaplan replacing Sir Nick Clegg - a former Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister - as the company's president of global affairs has also been interpreted by many analysts as a signal of the firm's shifting approach to moderation and its changing political priorities. Meta is abandoning the use of third party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US and will replace it with X-style "community notes", where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. Joel Kaplan, who is replacing Sir Nick Clegg as Meta's head of global affairs, wrote that the company's reliance on independent moderators was "well-intentioned" but had gone too far.

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