Meta Platforms (META) has been in full focus for multiple reasons as CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins to roll out significant changes. 🎁 Don’t Miss This Amazing Holiday Move! Buy 1 Year and Get 1 Year FREE on TheStreet Pro.

Zuckerberg said Meta would get rid of fact-checkers for Facebook, Instagram and Threads, starting in the United States, and replace it with a "community notes" system similar to t

To researchers who have studied moderation efforts and platforms, it’s the most recent move toward a more freewheeling and unbridled social media environment.

The International Fact-Checking Network proposed crowdsourcing in conjunction with professionals, a "new model."

I'm counting on these changes actually making our platforms better," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.

The Spectator contributor Terry Barnes lauds Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg for acknowledging the changing of the tides by scrapping fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram in the US.