Less than two weeks before the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, Meta is moving away from its third-party fact-checking program — a cornerstone of its platforms since 2016 — in an effort to return to its “fundamental commitment to free expression,

The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.

In explaining the decision, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg nodded to a "cultural tipping point" after Trump's election.