In a move seen by some as an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump, Meta said Tuesday that it will scrap the third-party fact-checking program that has been in place since 2016 in the U.S. in favor of a Community Notes initiative, resembling that used on X (formerly Twitter).

Joel Kaplan—who was promoted to chief global affairs officer, the company’s most senior policy role, last week, replacing the outgoing Nick Clegg—said in a blog post that the aim is to provide context from “people across a diverse range of perspectives.” Community Notes will be written and rated by contributing users, with Meta having no part in the process or in determining which ones appear. The blog post detailed other changes that were made to how the platform handles high and low severity violations.

“The reality is, this is a tradeoff,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an accompanying video. “It means that we’re going to catch less bad stuff, but we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.”

“I think it’s safe to say no one predicted that Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter would become a trend that other tech platforms would follow, and yet here we are,” Damian Rollison, director of market insights at artificial intelligence platform SOCi, told ADWEEK. “We can see now in retrospect that Musk established a standard for a newly conservative approach to the loosening of online content moderation—one that Meta has now embraced in advance of the incoming Trump administration.”

Meta is also removing restrictions on civic content in topics like gender, gender identity, and immigration across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, as well as throttling back changes the company introduced in 2021 to reduce the amount of political content users see.

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