Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a huge shift, moving the company away from extreme censorship. On Tuesday, Zuckerberg revealed Meta’s ‘fact checking’ program will be replaced with the “community notes” system.

Following in Elon Musk’s footsteps to bring back free speech on social media platforms, the change will affect Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. “We’re gonna get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said in a five-minute video.

“More specifically, here’s what we’re going to do. First, we’re going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”

Zuckerberg noted moderation policies have “gone too far,” and encourage discourse around divisive topics like immigration and gender instead of shutting down users for their heterodox opinions or beliefs.

“The problem here is that the filters make mistakes and take down a lot of content that they shouldn’t,” Zuckerberg said. “So by dialing them back, we’re going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms.”

There will also be a return to civic content on Meta’s three main platforms. In the past, Meta stopped recommending political posts after users requested to stop seeing such content. But because “we’re in a new era now,” as Zuckerberg said, Meta will bring back civic content while working to keep the discourse “friendly and positive.”

Interestingly, Meta’s trust and safety and content moderation teams will also be moving out of California to Texas, “where there’s less concern about the bias of our teams,” Zuckerberg added.

Zuckerberg also stated a collaboration with the Trump administration, saying he looks forward to the support of the U.S. government now that a free speech-friendly president will enter office. He noted this was impossible to do over the past four years during the Biden administration, which pushed for censorship itself.

“The bottom line is that after years of having our content moderation work focused primarily on removing content, it is time to focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our systems, and getting back to our roots about giving people voice,” Zuckerberg concluded in the video.