• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
Meta Shuts Down Fact-Checking: Zuckerberg Champions Free Speech

Meta Shuts Down Fact-Checking: Zuckerberg Champions Free Speech

January 7, 2025
Comey’s Daughter Reportedly Fired From DOJ

Comey’s Daughter Reportedly Fired From DOJ

July 16, 2025
Trio Of Police Chiefs Cooked Police Reports To Let Illegals In, DOJ Alleges

Trio Of Police Chiefs Cooked Police Reports To Let Illegals In, DOJ Alleges

July 16, 2025
Democrats’ Medicaid Meltdown Totally Ignores Inconvenient Facts

Democrats’ Medicaid Meltdown Totally Ignores Inconvenient Facts

July 16, 2025
Trump Signs Law Jacking Up Punishment For Fentanyl Peddlers Poisoning Americans

Trump Signs Law Jacking Up Punishment For Fentanyl Peddlers Poisoning Americans

July 16, 2025
DAVID BLACKMON: How Pittsburgh Plans To Leverage Local Gas, Nuclear To Become A Major AI Hub

DAVID BLACKMON: How Pittsburgh Plans To Leverage Local Gas, Nuclear To Become A Major AI Hub

July 16, 2025
Trump’s Ukraine Pivot May Be Only Way To Get Putin To The Table

Trump’s Ukraine Pivot May Be Only Way To Get Putin To The Table

July 16, 2025
‘Very Serious Constitutional Crisis’: James Comer Says ‘No Evidence’ Yet Suggests Biden Controlled Use Of Autopen

‘Very Serious Constitutional Crisis’: James Comer Says ‘No Evidence’ Yet Suggests Biden Controlled Use Of Autopen

July 16, 2025
JD Vance Puts Washington Elites On Blast For ‘Forcing’ College On Americans At Expense Of Skilled Trades

JD Vance Puts Washington Elites On Blast For ‘Forcing’ College On Americans At Expense Of Skilled Trades

July 16, 2025
Here’s All The Nauseatingly Sexual Books The Left Wants Military Kids Reading

Here’s All The Nauseatingly Sexual Books The Left Wants Military Kids Reading

July 16, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein-Funded MIT Lab Hosted Panel On Giving Pedos Child Sex Robots

EXCLUSIVE: Epstein-Funded MIT Lab Hosted Panel On Giving Pedos Child Sex Robots

July 16, 2025
CASEY RYAN: Most States Now Prohibit Men From Playing In Women’s Sports

CASEY RYAN: Most States Now Prohibit Men From Playing In Women’s Sports

July 16, 2025
Brit Hume Rips Kamala Harris As ‘Single Weakest Presidential Candidate’ He ‘Can Remember’

Brit Hume Rips Kamala Harris As ‘Single Weakest Presidential Candidate’ He ‘Can Remember’

July 16, 2025
  • Donald Trump
  • State of the Union
  • Elon Musk
  • Tariffs
  • Congress
  • Faith
  • Immigration
Thursday, July 17, 2025
  • Login
IJR
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls
No Result
View All Result
IJR
No Result
View All Result
Home Featured

Meta Shuts Down Fact-Checking: Zuckerberg Champions Free Speech

by Andrew Powell
January 7, 2025 at 9:17 am
in Featured, News
250 2
0
Meta Shuts Down Fact-Checking: Zuckerberg Champions Free Speech

(@damonimani / X screen shot)

491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Meta’s fact-checking program is coming to an end, after it was announced the company will be moving toward community notes similar to X.

Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on social media the company will “getting back to its roots on free expression” across its Facebook and Instagram platforms.

“There’s been widespread debate about potential harms from online content,” Zuckerberg said in a video announcement, “Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this is clearly political, but there’s also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there — drugs, terrorism, child exploitation — these are things that we take very seriously, and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.”

Zuckerberg went on to say the company “built a lot of complex systems to moderate content,” but noted these systems can sometimes make mistakes, further pointing out there have now been “too many mistakes” and “too much censorship.”

According to Zuckerberg, fact-checkers will be replaced with Community Notes similar to X, and the roll out will begin first in the U.S., with the CEO noting legacy media wrote “nonstop” that misinformation is a threat to democracy and has done so since President-elect Donald Trump was first elected in 2016.

“We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S.,” Zuckerberg said.

The community notes will be phased into the company’s systems, as well as a more simplified policies around content. There will be less restrictions on specific topics like immigration and gender, which Zuckerberg said was “out of touch with mainstream discourse.” Furthermore, in the companies quest to become more inclusive, Zuckerberg admits this has done the opposite and has instead shut down opposing opinions.

Filters used by the company to scan content, will also now focus more on illegal and “high severity” violations, while “lower severity” violations will have no action taken until it is reported directly to the company.

Meta’s U.S.-based Trust and Safety Moderation Teams are going to be relocated from California to Texas, and Zuckerberg said he will be working with Trump to push back against foreign governments who are going after American companies and pushing for stricter censorship.

“The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world. Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship, and making it difficult to build anything innovative there. … The only way we can push back on this trend, is with the support of the U.S. government,” Zuckerberg said.

Zuckerberg further said during the past four years under President Joe Biden, the government has been pushing the company to censor more content, and in turn, has emboldened other nations to also pursue more censorship.

“The bottom line is that after years of having our content moderation work focused primarily on removing content, it is time to focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our systems, and getting back to our roots about giving people voice,” Zuckerberg said.

Watch the video below:

BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg says he's bringing back free speech to Instagram and replacing fact checks with Community Notes. pic.twitter.com/1Y7IkODBFQ

— Damon Imani (@damonimani) January 7, 2025
Tags: censorshipFacebookFact-checkersInstagramMark ZuckerbergMetaU.S. News
Share196Tweet123
Andrew Powell

Andrew Powell

IJR, Contributor Writer

Advertisements

Top Stories June 10th
Top Stories June 7th
Top Stories June 6th
Top Stories June 3rd
Top Stories May 30th
Top Stories May 29th
Top Stories May 24th
Top Stories May 23rd
Top Stories May 21st
Top Stories May 17th

Join Over 6M Subscribers

We’re organizing an online community to elevate trusted voices on all sides so that you can be fully informed.





IJR

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Trusted Voices On All Sides

  • About Us
  • GDPR Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Editorial Standards & Corrections Policy
  • Subscribe to IJR

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Top Stories June 10th Top Stories June 7th Top Stories June 6th Top Stories June 3rd Top Stories May 30th Top Stories May 29th Top Stories May 24th Top Stories May 23rd Top Stories May 21st Top Stories May 17th