According to The Wall Street Journal, this decision was the result of Zuckerberg’s own personal experience with Facebook. In November 2023, the Meta CEO posted about a knee injury he sustained while training for an MMA fight.

Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan.

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the company would be stopping its Fact Check process and would instead move to a structure like X's 'community notes'.