Exhibit 1146 · Company statement
More Speech and Fewer Mistakes (Meta newsroom, Joel Kaplan)
In recent years we’ve developed increasingly complex systems to manage content across our platforms, partly in response to societal and political pressure to moderate content.
Meta announces it will end its U.S. third-party fact-checking program for a Community Notes model, lift restrictions on some topics and focus enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations. It attributes its content-moderation systems partly to pressure ('societal and political pressure to moderate content') and says that approach 'has gone too far'. Posted 13 days before the inauguration of the next administration. Says the program launched in 2016 with independent fact-checking organizations and that 'Experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives.' Says the system attached 'intrusive labels and reduced distribution,' and that 'A program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor.'
- Source
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Date
- 7 January 2025
- Quoted from
- Post of 7 January 2025, third paragraph of text
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes/
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Section 'Ending Third Party Fact Checking Program, Moving to Community Notes': 'Our system then attached real consequences in the form of intrusive labels and reduced distribution. A program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor.' The phrase 'Experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives' appears in the same section.