In a move seen by some as an olive department to President-elect Donald Trump, Meta mentioned Tuesday that it’ll scrap the third-party fact-checking program that has been in place since 2016 within the U.S. in favor of a Group Notes initiative, resembling that used on X (previously Twitter).

Joel Kaplan—who was promoted to chief global affairs officer, the corporate’s most senior coverage position, final week, changing the outgoing Nick Clegg—mentioned in a blog post that the intention is to offer context from “folks throughout a various vary of views.” Group Notes shall be written and rated by contributing customers, with Meta having no half within the course of or in figuring out which of them seem. The weblog put up detailed different adjustments that had been made to how the platform handles excessive and low severity violations.

“The truth is, this can be a tradeoff,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned in an accompanying video. “It implies that we’re going to catch much less dangerous stuff, however we’ll additionally cut back the variety of harmless folks’s posts and accounts that we unintentionally take down.”

“I feel it’s protected to say nobody predicted that Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter would turn into a development that different tech platforms would observe, and but right here we’re,” Damian Rollison, director of market insights at synthetic intelligence platform SOCi, informed ADWEEK. “We will see now looking back that Musk established a typical for a newly conservative strategy to the loosening of on-line content material moderation—one which Meta has now embraced upfront of the incoming Trump administration.”

Meta can also be eradicating restrictions on civic content material in subjects like gender, gender identification, and immigration throughout Fb, Instagram, and Threads, in addition to throttling again adjustments the corporate launched in 2021 to reduce the amount of political content users see.