Ideas By Scott Nover January 10, 2025 6:00 AM EST Nover is a freelance writer covering media and technology. He is a contributing writer at Slate and was previously a reporter at Quartz and Adweek O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X. “We’ve seen this approach work on X,” said Joel