Mark Zuckerberg claimed content moderation went too far at Meta, and it’s time for a change. Its platforms will no longer rely on third-party fact checkers, instead copying the “community notes” feature from Elon Musk’s X.

Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

In a video announcing the changes, Zuckerberg says Meta has built a lot of complex systems to moderate content, "But the problem with complex systems is