Zuckerberg announced the abolition of Meta factchecking on its platforms

The American corporation Meta (recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) is terminating the program of fact-checking and removing restrictions on statements on its platforms. This was announced by the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg on January 7.

"First, we're going to get rid of fact-checking and replace it with community notes, similar to [social network] X, starting in the U.S.," he said in a video message published on his Facebook page (owned by Meta, recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia).

In addition, according to Zuckerberg, the company intends to remove various restrictions on a number of topics.

The CEO of the company also drew attention to the fact that Meta previously tried to meet the requirements of the authorities, who insisted on increasing censorship in American social networks. However, the extreme US election was a "cultural tipping point" that emphasized the importance of freedom of speech and expression. According to Zuckerberg, factcheckers showed excessive political bias, which led to a loss of trust from users.

Earlier, on August 27, 2024, Zuckerberg admitted that the US government pressured the corporation to censor content on the organization's social networks. He specified that the censorship affected posts on the topic of the coronavirus and content probably related to the involvement of the son of the current American leader Joe Biden Hunter in crimes.

Before that, on August 23, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that Western countries, using leverage on their media, do not just put all events in a favorable light for themselves, but construct their own reality.

On August 17, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that the White House has ceased to fear for its reputation and now does not shy away from total censorship, adhering to double standards in the issue of freedom of speech. This is how the diplomat commented on the searches in the house of American political scientist and Channel One anchor Dmitry Symes.

Back in February, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson that the United States controls almost all major Western media outlets, and against this backdrop, American propaganda is very hard to defeat.