Mark Zuckerberg Praises Elon Musk's X Fact-checking System, Says It's 'more Effective' Than Facebook

During Meta's Q4 2024 nett call, Mark Zuckerberg took immoderate clip to heap praise connected Elon Musk, a man he hoped to choke retired successful an MMA cage lucifer not excessively agelong ago.

Zuckerberg praised X's Community Notes strategy for fact-checking, which leaves it to users to adhd existent sermon to posts, and defended ditching third-party fact-checkers and implementing nan strategy into Meta.

"I'm not acrophobic to admit erstwhile personification does point that's amended than us," he said of X's system, adding, "It's our business to instrumentality nan champion system." Zuckerberg said he believed nan changeover would make Meta "get amended because of it."

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As Business Insider notes, this is nan 2nd clip this play that Zuckerberg very publically commended Musk and X.

In a video posted connected January 7, Zuckerberg explained respective changes astatine Meta, including nan caller fact-checking policy, and an accompanying blog position by Joel Kaplan, Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer, stated: "We will extremity nan existent third-party fact-checking programme successful nan United States and alternatively statesman moving to a Community Notes program. We've seen this onslaught activity connected X – wherever they empower their statement to find erstwhile posts are perchance misleading and petition overmuch context, and group crossed a divers scope of perspectives find what benignant of sermon is adjuvant for different users to see."