What Zuckerberg Risks by Following Musk’s Lead

On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.

“We’ve seen this approach work on X,” said Joel Kaplan, Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer in a statement.

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Thanks to the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg, social media is simply getting worse. Much, much worse.