Meta: “Starting in the US, we are ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model”
“Some people believe giving more people a voice is driving division rather than bringing us together. More people across the spectrum believe that achieving the political outcomes they think matter is more important than every person having a voice. I think that’s dangerous.”
“A program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor.”
“we will get rid of our fact-checking control, stop demoting fact checked content and, instead of overlaying full screen interstitial warnings you have to click through before you can even see the post, we will use a much less obtrusive label indicating that there is additional information for those who want to see it.”
Opinion: This is a huge win for free speech. It’s awesome to see Meta acknowledge their mistake and move to correct it.