Big changes are coming to how we manage content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced steps Tuesday that he said would reduce the company’s mistakes and allow for more free speech.

Zuckerberg said the new measures would prevent innocuous content from being censored and users who have not violated the company’s policies from being wrongly locked in “Facebook Jail.” But critics say he is simply bowing to President-elect Donald Trump and politics.

“We will do that. First, we will eliminate fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X,” said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta.

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Zuckerberg said the third-party fact-checkers had become “too politically biased” and had “destroyed more trust than they created.”

“That’s why we will go back to our roots and focus on reducing errors, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said.

Meta assumes that content was removed accidentally in two out of ten cases and is now putting fact-checking in the hands of users.

“So if you’ve ever been on Twitter, formerly Twitter Now, there might be a notice at the bottom,” said CNET’s Abrar Al-Heeti.

The note is written by users who can now sign up to contribute to the new Community Notes program.

“Another thing they are doing is they are going to increase the amount of political content that you see,” Al-Heeti said.

Meta also announced it would lift restrictions on “issues such as immigration and gender identity,” “which are part of mainstream discourse.”

The changes come as Zuckerberg works to strengthen ties with new President Trump, who has praised the pivot, as has free speech advocate and former ACLU president Nadine Strossen.

“I think empowering users is exactly the right thing to do,” she said.

Strossen gives the changes a thumbs up.

“I think it’s really positive,” she said. “To expose people to as many different perspectives and ideas as possible and to improve their own abilities to distinguish the true from the false,” Strossen said. “These are really important tools that will be very, very powerful for our democracy, and I think they will go a long way toward reducing the unfortunate polarization that has plagued our politics and our culture lately.”

Meta emphasized that it would continue to moderate content related to drugs, terrorism and child exploitation and announced that the team responsible for this would be relocated from California to Texas.