Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is nixing Facebook's fact checkers and replacing them with community notes, a feature used by Elon Musk's X platform where users highlight posts they deem misleading or needing more context. The shift away from the existing system of fact checking, which was widely panned by Donald Trump and others known for spreading false claims, is another yet another sign that Zuckerberg is positioning himself to earn the president-elect's favor.

The community notes feature will also apply to Instagram and Threads, two........

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