Mark Zuckerberg says ‘time to get back to our roots around free expression’ as he announces overhaul
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Meta’s decision to end factchecking on its platforms including Facebook and Instagram will create a “free-for-all on misinformation, disinformation, abuse and trolling”, the Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has warned.
The company’s billionaire founder, Mark Zuckerberg, said it was “time to get back to our roots around free expression” as he announced that the platforms’ factchecking program would be replaced with X-style “community notes”, a feature that allows users to add context to posts.
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