Meta's about-face on fact-checking shows how Musk has remade the world in his image.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to that of Elon Musk's X.

Elon has been publicly trolling Sir Keir Starmer, which forced the Prime Minister to respond at a press conference. He indirectly accused Musk of spreading "lies and misinformation" about grooming in the UK, and of "cheerleading" for Tommy Robinson.

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For years, Zuckerberg said, “governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.” No longer. Meta is abolishing its third-party fact-checking program, starting in the U.S.; loosening its content filters;

In a dramatic shift in content moderation policies, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram would no longer fact-che.

Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the U.S. and replacing it with a system similar to the Community Notes on Elon Musk-owned X, the Facebook parent said on Tuesday.

Meta's new approach ignores research that shows "Community Notes users are very much motivated by partisan motives and tend to over-target their political opponents," added Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech.

Having established power over Republican politics in the US, the industrialist is now intervening in European politics—and is himself becoming a leader of the international far right.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni defended Elon Musk's growing involvement in politics on Thursday and said she had never discussed with him a potential deal to supply secure communications to Italy.