Facebook, Instagram, Meta changes: DEI, fact checkers and Dana White
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dramatically steered the company to the right ahead of the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dramatically steered the company to the right ahead of the inauguration of President-Elect Donald Trump with a series of policy and practice changes in the last week that have left some employees, users and interest groups up in arms.
Zuckerberg said some of the changes to Meta’s fact-checking and moderation systems were meant to curb censorship and protect free speech on its platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, but the scale of the changes goes far beyond social media moderation, reportedly touching on Meta’s internal policies around its bathrooms and its board and on optional aesthetic theming it previously deployed on one of its platforms to celebrate trans people.
These are all of the changes Meta has rolled out in the last week.
Last Tuesday, Meta announced it was scrapping its old fact-checking system and replacing it with a system similar to X’s Community Notes that will be rolled out in the next couple of months, starting in the United States.
Meta’s fact-checking system, which was introduced in 2016, worked by running some information on its platforms by certified third-party fact-checkers who would identify posts that appeared to be misinformation. However, Zuckerberg said, the fact-checkers were “too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created.”
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