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Meta is ditching third-party fact checkers on Facebook, Instagram

Meta has announced some major changes to its content moderation policies, including a shift from third-party fact checkers to X-style Community Notes.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg had some other announcements to make, including a simplification of certain content policies and ditching "a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse. Along with that, Meta is "working on ways to make recovering accounts more straightforward and testing facial recognition technology, and we’ve started using AI large language models (LLMs) to provide a second opinion on some content before we take enforcement actions." Zuckerberg explicitly said that Trump's election win is part of the reasoning behind Meta's policy shift, calling it "a cultural tipping point" on free speech.

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