Although Donald Trump has not yet been sworn in, the change in political and social course can already be seen in the United States. A clear example of this is the announcement made by Mark Zuckerberg regarding its content moderation policy on social networks Goal. And the businessman has made it known that will eliminate your information verification system and will replace it with a model of community notes, like the one used by X -formerly Twitter-.

“In recent years we have developed increasingly complex systems to manage content on our platforms, partly in response to social and political pressure to moderate content. This approach has gone too far“, they explain from the company in a statement. “As well-intentioned as many of these efforts have been, they have expanded over time to the point where we are making too many mistakes, frustrating our users, and too often hindering the free expression we set out to allow.”.

Meta assures that its objective is to solve the situation and recover its fundamental commitment to freedom of expression. Zuckerberg himself has transferred it to users through a video posted on their personal profiles on both platforms, arguing that the intention is Simplify your content policies.

Facebook’s content verification program was launched in 2016 and has been developed during these years by independent organizations. Now, under the new administration of Donald Trump, Meta seeks to ingratiate himself with who will be the new President of the United States by communing with discourse around freedom of expression.

Meta’s conciliatory efforts also include $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund, whose objective is to raise money to organize the inauguration ceremony, which will take place on January 20, and its related events. Zuckerberg also visited the magnate in November at his Mar-a-Lago mansion.

The movement implies that from now on Facebook, Instagram and Threads will have Community Notes, and therefore, as Meta has explained in the statement, the company will not publish explanatory notes on the information and content published, nor will it decide which notes are shown. Instead, users will write and rate them.

At the moment the system is available now in the United States and will expand to other markets in the coming months. Users who wish can register to be part of Community Notes and be the first to contribute to the program. Meta notes that as the transition is made, the third-party verification program will be eliminated, Verified content will no longer be “deprioritized” and will be used a less intrusive label than the warning used so far to indicate that there is additional information for those who wish to see it.

Additionally, the company has announced that it will continue to implement an automatic verification system for illegal and high severity content violations, such as terrorism, child sexual exploitation, drugs, fraud and scams. However, for less serious policy violations it will depend on whether Someone report a problem before taking any action.

It will also move your content moderation and review teams and security policies from California, traditionally a Democratic state, to Texas, traditionally Republican, in what is also understood as a nod to Trump. It has also added more staff to this area and is using artificial intelligence models to provide a second opinion on some content before taking compliance measures.

With all this, Meta thus detaches itself from a system that it now claims has ended “verifying too much content that people would understand as legitimate political speech and debate”. He also assures that the experts he has trusted so far have shown biases and perspectives that have affected information management. “A program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor”, comments in the statement.

The movement represents not only a rapprochement with Trump but also with conservative users, who have been criticizing Meta’s platforms for years, describing the moderation system as censorship. The change aims relax the relationship between Zuckerberg and the new President, worsened since Meta suspended Trump’s accounts after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by supporters of the then candidate.