The company said it decided to end the program because expert fact checkers had their own biases and too much content ended up being fact checked.

Bending to the political headwinds of the incoming Trump administration, Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with “community notes” written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social platform X.

"First, we are going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the US," Zuckerberg said in a video message on Meta's blog. Meta'

Facebook plans to replace its fact checkers with "Community Notes," a move that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would allow the social network to return "to our roots around free expression." "We're replacing fact checkers with Community Notes,