With less than two weeks before Donald Trump takes office, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of changes to its content moderation practices on Facebook and Instagram, including ending fact-checking and other restrictions.

These changes will affect Facebook, Instagram and Threads – three of the world's largest social media platforms with a combined user base exceeding three billion. In a video statement, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the fact-checkers "have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US".

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Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will move to a Community Notes system as the company prepares for Donald Trump's presidency.

If you had any doubt that Meta was changing in order to please the new president, that's over now, Peter Kafka writes.