Facebook and Instagram are ditching fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes system inspired by X: 'Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased,' Zuckerberg says

Mark Zuckerberg says social media platforms Facebook and Instagram are going to "get back to our roots" by removing fact checkers and replacing them with a "Community Notes" system modelled after the one used by Elon Musk's X.

Facebook has implemented a variety of "complex systems" over the years to address the spread of harmful material online, Zuckerberg said in a video message, but those systems sometimes make mistakes—and it's now reached a point where "it's just too many mistakes and...