How Will Mark Zuckerbergs Recent Meta Announcement Change the Way We Interact Online? [Video]

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is throwing in the towel on the social media behemoth’s rigorous fact-checking program. In a video posted to socials on Wednesday, the 40-year-old billionaire (I checked), wearing a $900,000 watch (I double-checked), heralded the end of third-party checkers for his $1.54 trillion company (you know I checked) in favor of the user-based community notes scheme seen on Elon Musk’s X. According to Zuck, “It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression,” which loosely translates to Meta not being fully accountable for the things posted on its own platform. To many, of course, this shift only foreshadows a surge in unabashed disinformation across Meta’s platforms—a transition into Face-Value-book, Misinfo-gram, and Whats-Even-True-Anymore-App. Without adequate moderation, even its text-based platform Threads could quickly tie itself in a knot of untruths.

Meta’s circa2019 focus on factuality was predominantly developed under the Biden administration, in the wake of gross disinformation being spread …