It’s also the latest indication that Zuckerberg is trying to buddy up to incoming president Donald Trump, and is in that respect becoming more like Trump’s current right-hand man in tech: Elon Musk.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook will roll back a number of its censorship policies to become a free speech platform. The Meta CEO said he would get rid of the social media platform's fact-checkers and replace them with a community notes system similar to the one used by Elon Musk's X,

“ We have seen this approach work on X ,” directly mentioning its rival platform X/Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg's company Meta announced that its third-party fact-checking will stop in the United States for a Community Notes-like feature.

Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

Elon Musk praised Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg's move to end fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, following Musk's lead after he implemented community notes on X.

The Meta CEO announced changes to content moderation just in time for a familiar, incoming presidential administration.

Remember when Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were going to fight each other in a cage match, after Zuckerberg launched "Threads" a couple of years ago? It wasn't just their physical prowess being tested,