Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced an end to fact checking on the Facebook and Instagram platforms and in doing so said something that many have complained about for a long time.

He made the announcement on Tuesday and said that he believes the fact checkers, who are supposed to be independent, we using political bias in their facts checks.

He also said that Meta would be using a “community notes” feature similar to that of X to combat misinformation.

“There’s been widespread debate about the potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this is clearly political, but there’s also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation. These are things that we take very seriously, and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly. So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content, but the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts,” the Facebook founder said adding that there were “too many mistakes and too much censorship.”

“First, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X starting in the US. After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth, but the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the US. So, over the next couple of months, we’re going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system,” Zuckerberg continued.

He said that restrictions on topic like “immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse” would also be changed, noting as well that the company would not use filters that automatically censor “policy violation” other than “illegal and high-severity violations” and will instead rely on results.

Zuckerberg said they would bring back “civic content” which means that people who want to see political content on their newsfeeds will be able to see more of it again.

“Finally, we’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world. They’re going after American companies and pushing to censor more. The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world. Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws, institutionalizing censorship, and making it difficult to build anything innovative there. Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down. China has censored our apps from even working in the country. The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US government, and that’s why it’s been so difficult over the past four years when even the US government has pushed for censorship,” he said.