You probably didn’t have X CEO Linda Yaccarino praising Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on your CES 2025 bingo card, yet here we are. Speaking during a keynote address in Las Vegas, Yaccarino described Meta’s decision to end its longtime fact checking program and implement community notes as “exciting” and “validating.

Rather than using staff fact-checkers, Meta said Tuesday that it would use the community notes model, following in the path of X.

X leadership has been taking a series of victory laps since the U.S. presidential election, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has already set the stage for its 2025 ambitions in streaming, money, and AI. Much of that has already launched,

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that third-party fact checkers will be replaced by "community notes" on Facebook and Instagram, to help address the perception of bias.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the 2016 policy led to excessive censorship and the platforms will adopt new, user-based content monitoring.