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The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts. It is likely to please the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

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Meta on Tuesday announced a set of changes to its content moderation practices<\/a> that would effectively put an end to its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps.<\/p>\n

The reversal of the years-old policy is a stark sign of how the company is repositioning itself for the Trump era. Meta described the changes with the language of a mea culpa, saying that the company had strayed too far from its values over the prior decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to undo the mission creep that has made our rules too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement,\u201d Joel Kaplan, Meta\u2019s newly installed global policy chief, said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Instead of using news organizations and other third-party groups, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts that may contain false or misleading information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, said in a video<\/a> that the new protocol, which will begin in the United States, is similar to the one used by X, called Community Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to get back to our roots around free expression,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg said. The company\u2019s current fact-checking system, he added, had \u201creached a point where it\u2019s just too many mistakes and too much censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts. It is likely to please the Trump administration.Meta on Tuesday announced a set of changes to its content moderation practices that would effectively put an end to its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps.The reversal of the years-old policy is a stark sign of how the company is repositioning itself for the Trump era. Meta described the changes with the language of a mea culpa, saying that the company had strayed too far from its values over the prior decade.\u201cWe want to undo the mission creep that has made our rules too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement,\u201d Joel Kaplan, Meta\u2019s newly installed global policy chief, said in a statement.Instead of using news organizations and other third-party groups, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts that may contain false or misleading information.Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, said in a video that the new protocol, which will begin in the United States, is similar to the one used by X, called Community Notes.\u201cIt\u2019s time to get back to our roots around free expression,\u201d Mr. Zuckerberg said. The company\u2019s current fact-checking system, he added, had \u201creached a point where it\u2019s just too many mistakes and too much censorship.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19481,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19482,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19479\/revisions\/19482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}