Zuckerberg finds Meta’s fact-checking “biased.” It will replace it with… users

More political content, fewer restrictions. The owner of Meta presents changes on social media, and there are those who talk about getting closer to Trump.

In a video posted on the company’s website on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said third-party moderators were “too biased from a political point of view” and that it was “time to return to our roots around freedom of expression”, says .

That’s why the company will apply a new method: the company’s fact-checking services will be replaced by “community notes”as has the X. On Elon Musk’s social network, these notes consist of corrections made by any userwithout the need for validation by the application, to any published information that you consider to be incorrect or inaccurate.

“Zuckerberg’s announcement is a blatant attempt to approaching the new Trump administration — with harmful implications”, assesses Ava Lee, of the organization.

“Claiming to avoid ‘censorship’ is a political move to avoid taking responsibility for hate and misinformation that platforms encourage and facilitate“, also says the owner of Meta, which has more than 3 billion users worldwide.

According to , Meta’s social networks, which range from Instagram and Threads to Facebook or Whatsapp, will have the content moderation teams transferred from California to Texas, “where there is less concern about bias in our teams”, says Zuckerberg.

The owner of Meta also guaranteed that the company will “get rid of a series of restrictions on topics such as immigration and genderwhich are outside the dominant discourse” and “work with President Trump to stand up to governments around the world who are persecuting American companies and pushing for more censorship.”

He also referred to Europe as a place with “an increasing number of laws that institutionalize censorship and make it difficult to build something innovative.”

“Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to take things offline“, he accused.

“We will also adjust our content filters to require much greater trust before removing content. The reality is that it is a commitment,” he says.

“It means that let’s catch less bad things“, he confesses, “but we will also reduce the number of publications and people’s accounts innocent that we accidentally eliminated.”