Facebook plans to replace its truth checkers with “throng Notes,” a shift that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would allow the social network to profitability “to our roots around free expression.”

“We’re replacing truth checkers with throng Notes, simplifying our policies and focusing on reducing mistakes,” Zuckerberg said on Tuesday. “Looking forward to this next chapter.”

The changes, which will also be in place for Instagram and Threads, will lift restrictions “on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse” and will focus the business’s “enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations,” Joel Kaplan, chief global affairs officer, said in a blog post.

As the business’s truth-checking capabilities have grown, they have expanded “to the point where we are making too many mistakes,” which in turn has frustrated many of the social networks’ users, Kaplan said.

“Too much harmless content gets censored, too many people discover themselves wrongly locked up in ‘Facebook jail,’ and we are often too leisurely to respond when they do,” he said.

The shift in policy mirrors a series of updates that Elon Musk made after purchasing rival social network Twitter, which he’s since rebranded as X.

Kaplan on Tuesday praised the way Musk has taken, saying X under its recent owner has empowered its “throng to decide when posts are potentially misleading and require more context.”

“We ponder this could be a better way of achieving our original intention of providing people with information about what they’re seeing — and one that’s less prone to bias,” Kaplan said.

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ABC information’ Michael Kreisel and Zunaira Zaki contributed to this update.