Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it鈥檚 scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with Community Notes written by users similar to the model used by .

Starting in the U.S., Meta will end its fact-checking program with independent third parties. The company said it decided to end the program because expert fact checkers had their own biases and too much content ended up being fact checked.

Instead, it will pivot to a Community Notes model that uses crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users.

鈥淲e鈥檝e seen this approach work on X 鈥� where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context,鈥� Meta鈥檚 Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said in a blog post.

Kaplan said the new system will be phased in over the next couple of months, and the company will work on improving it over the year. As part of the transition, Meta will use labels to replace warnings overlaid on posts that it forces users to click through.

The Associated Press had participated in Meta鈥檚 fact-checking program previously but ended its participation a year ago.

The social media company also said it plans to allow 鈥渕ore speech鈥� by lifting some restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion such as immigration and gender in order to focus on illegal and 鈥渉igh severity violations鈥� like terrorism, child sexual exploitation and drugs.

Meta said that its approach of building complex systems to manage content on its platforms has 鈥済one too far鈥� and has made 鈥渢oo many mistakes鈥� by censoring too much content.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the changes are in part sparked by political events including .

鈥淭he recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech,鈥� Zuckerberg said in an online video.

Meta鈥檚 quasi-independent Oversight Board, which was set up to act as a referee on controversial content decisions, said it welcomed the changes and looked forward to working with the company 鈥渢o understand the changes in greater detail, ensuring its new approach can be as effective and speech-friendly as possible.鈥�