Meta is officially shutting down its fact-checking program and replacing it with Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The decision is currently only in the US, as the company's head of policy, Joel Kaplan, noted.
"By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over," writes Joel Kaplan. "That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers."
Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was shutting down its long-running fact-checking program, claiming it had enabled excessive "censorship."
The company doesn't often comment on its plans for Community Notes outside the US, likely because other governments have already expressed concerns about how the changes could affect the spread of misinformation on a global scale.
Meta's decision to stop fact-checking in the US came earlier this year after Donald Trump won the presidential election. The company also shut down its corporate DEI programs and rolled back hate speech protections on its social media platforms.