Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would end the fact-checking system on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, and instead allow users to verify the accuracy of posts with something akin to the community notes that X has implemented. Meta ramped up its fact-checking after Donald Trump’s first election win in 2016, but Mr Zuckerberg accepts that it was responsible for “too many mistakes and too much censorship” and that the new policy marks a return to free-speech principles. Some saw the timing of the rethink as bending the knee to Mr Trump.