Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails

Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.

Zuckerberg’s blunt reversal this week puts an end to the era of corporate content moderation. Whether you view it as idealistic or sinister, content moderation has now ended as a failed experiment — even by its own terms.

The social networking technology giant will stop utilizing third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users