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 Fact-checkers are politically biased, Meta will allow for more free expression: Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook's parent company Meta, has announced a major policy change. As a result of this policy change, more political content will now be visible on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Their parent company Meta will now recommend more political content.

The company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in a video post on Tuesday. In the title of the video post, he wrote, "It's time to return to our roots around free expression. We will now use community notes instead of fact checkers. We are simplifying our policies and focusing on reducing errors."

Recently, Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, met with the newly elected US President Donald Trump. After that, he promised to give importance to the issue of free expression.

The issue of giving importance to the publication of political content is starting from the United States. He said that in this case, the use of third parties or institutions that Facebook had authority (fact checkers) and the use of community notes will be reduced. That is, from now on, Meta will give more importance to the opinions of users in this case. Community Notes is a well-known feature of another social media platform, X (formerly Twitter).

X is owned by Elon Musk, the world's richest man and close to Trump. On this platform, it is up to users to add warnings and context to controversial posts.

Zuckerberg has questioned the behavior of fact-checkers. He alleged that Meta's fact-checkers have been too politically biased. They have destroyed more trust than they have built.

Zuckerberg said that Meta's content editing staff was moved from California to TexasThere will be. There are fewer concerns about Meta's bias.

Zuckerberg, however, admitted that Meta will now filter less content. This could allow a lot of bad content to appear on Meta's platforms.

Meta has more than 3 billion users worldwide. Zuckerberg's statement said that Meta will be freed from restrictions on issues such as immigration and gender. Meta will work with President Trump to increase pressure on governments in countries that are pressuring US institutions for more censorship.

The announcement by Meta came at a time when former US Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg resigned from the company's position as global affairs and was replaced by prominent US Republican Joel Kaplan.

Zuckerberg also said in his five-minute statement, "Governments in various countries and their legacies are pushing for more censorship of the media. A lot of it is clearly political. In addition, there are also bad things like drugs, terrorism, child abuse. We take these issues very seriously. "I want to make sure we consider these responsibly."

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