What Facebook changes mean for you as Mark Zuckerberg major overhaul
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Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has announced changes to his social media platforms - but how will they affect your feed?. The Meta CEO, 40, said he hopes to encourage 'free speech' as he shared his desire to get back to basics with a 'return to their roots'. The change will see a shift in the way the company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, moderates users' posts, putting an end to content accidentally being censored.
In an online video, Zuckerburg touched on the political landscape as he declared they're set to replace its fact-checking program with trusted partners for a community-driven system - similar to X, formerly Twitter, which is run by billionaire Elon Musk.
However, the change in recent times on X, along with Musk's White House appointment following President-Elect Donald Trump's re-election, has seen loyal account users exit the platform in droves. The mass exodus, which saw the site lose around 2.7 million active Apple and Android users in the US in just two months at the end of last year, has been blamed on people's feeds being taken over by harmful and inappropriate content, with radical views easily cutting through.
Bruce Daisley, a former vice president of the company in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa when it was still known as Twitter, told the Guardian that X has become a place where people no longer want to be. "If I went out to a Christmas market, and if in the corner of this Christmas market there was a group of racist protesters, I probably wouldn’t stay there," Daisley said.
