Zuckerberg Warns of Surge in Harmful Content as Meta Stops Fact-Checking
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RDA Gulf Correspondent - . January 8, 2025
- . Update: January 9, 2025 1:42 am
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will change its content review policies on Facebook and Instagram eliminating fact checkers and substituting user-generated “community notes,” kin to Elon Musk’s X in a series of broad changes that will fundamentally change how posts, videos and other content are moderated online.
The modifications are made right before Donald Trump, the president-elect, takes office. Zuckerberg and Meta have been under fire from Trump and other Republicans over what they see as their suppression of right-wing viewpoints.
In a video introducing the new policy, Zuckerberg said that fact checkers had been too politically biased and had eroded more confidence than they had restored. “What began as an inclusiveness movement has been used more and more to silence dissenting voices and exclude those who hold different views, and it has gone too far.”
However, Zuckerberg recognized that the new policy had a “tradeoff,” pointing out that the platform would see more serious content as a result of the content filtering adjustments.
