Parent company Facebook and Instagram, Meta has revealed it will no longer be making use of third party fact-checking on it’s social platforms.

It wil instead adopt the X formerly known as Twitter -style “community notes”, where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users.

In the words of chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg in a video posted by the company on tuesday, “it’s time to get back to our roots around free expression”.

Moreover, Joel Kaplan, who replaced Sir Nick Clegg as Meta’s head of global affairs, wrote that the company’s reliance on independent moderators was “well-intentioned” but had gone too far. He wrote,

“Too much harmless content gets censored”, adding Meta was “too often getting in the way of the free expression we set out to enable.”

Though it is yet to spell out when or if it will be introduced elsewhere, the tech giant said the move to a community notes system will be phased in “in the US first” over the coming months.

The system – which Meta says it has seen “work on X” – sees people of different viewpoints agree on notes which add context or clarifications to controversial posts.