Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta.

Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta is abandoning its fact-checking program as he criticised the system for becoming “too politically biased.”

The tech billionaire unveiled the changes in a video on Tuesday. Zuckerberg said his companies — which include Facebook and Instagram — would instead implement a “community notes” model similar to the one used on X, which is owned by Elon Musk.

The policy shift comes as tech companies attempt to curry favour with President-elect Donald Trump following the Republican’s election triumph in November.

“After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote non-stop about how misinformation was a threat to........

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