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.

Instead, Meta will follow the lead of X under Elon Musk and rely on crowd-sourced Community Notes to provide additional context on posts. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with David Gilbert, a reporter at Wired who covers online disinformation and extremism, to learn more about Meta’s latest pivot.

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says "community notes" will now moderate content. That already happens on Elon Musk's X. Here's how they work — and don't.

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

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, announced a major shift in content moderation policies across the company's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

Meta leader Mark Zuckerberg‘s surprise announcement that his company’s platforms — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc. — would largely no longer fact-check most content drew both praise and derision online.