Mr. Zuckerberg noted that “recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.”
Elon Musk has relied on Community Notes to flag misleading posts on X. Since taking over the social network, Mr. Musk has also increasingly positioned X as the platform behind the new Trump presidency.
The move is likely to please the incoming administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump and its conservative allies, many of whom have disliked Meta’s practice of adding disclaimers or warnings to questionable or false posts. Mr. Trump has long railed against Mr. Zuckerberg, claiming the fact-checking feature treated posts by conservative users unfairly.
Since Mr. Trump won a second term in November, Meta has moved swiftly to try to repair the strained relationships he and his company have with conservatives.
In late November, Mr. Zuckerberg dined with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, where he also met with his secretary of state pick, Marco Rubio. Meta donated $1 million to support Mr. Trump’s inauguration in December. Last week, Mr. Zuckerberg elevated Joel Kaplan, a longtime conservative and the highest ranking Meta executive closest to the Republican Party, to the company’s most senior policy role. And on Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg announced that Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a close ally of Mr. Trump, would join Meta’s board.
