The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. President-elect Trump and his conservative allies said they were pleased.

"While Zuckerberg characterized the platform giant’s new approach as a defence of free speech, its real intentions are twofold: Ditch the technology company’s responsibility to protect its many users and align the company more closely with an incoming president who’s a known enemy of accountability," Benavidez said in the press release.

Social media giant Meta on Tuesday slashed its content moderation policies, including ending its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram, in a major shift that conforms with the priorities of incoming president Donald Trump.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he was shelving their fact-checking policy. This policy shift comes ahead of the Trump administration.

Meta Founder Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to his company’s social media platforms, including getting rid of fact checkers and major changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policies. Republican strategist Scott Jennings praised the move and says the fact checkers were just “partisan sledgehammers.

The move to replace third-party fact-checking with user-written “community notes” similar to those on Trump backer Elon Musk’s social platform X is the latest example of a media company moving to accommodate the incoming administration.