It’s not as widespread, or dangerous, as people think.
Meta is ending fact-checking and removing restrictions on speech across Facebook and Instagram. Mark Zuckerberg, its CEO, called the move an attempt to restore free expression on its platforms. Fact-checkers will be replaced with Community Notes, a system similar to what Elon Musk has favored on X, in which users flag posts they believe are inaccurate or require more context.
While Meta will continue to target illegal behavior, Zuckerberg wrote in a separate Threads post, it will stop enforcing content rules about issues like immigration and gender that are “out of touch with mainstream discourse.” President Trump, who was suspended from Facebook for two years after the Jan. 6 insurrection, was pleased. “They’ve come a long way,” he said after Zuckerberg’s announcement.
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Rob Henderson is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He has a PhD in psychology from the University of Cambridge and is the best-selling author of “Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class.”
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