President-elect Donald Trump responded to Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program on Facebook, Instagram, and its other platforms, telling Fox News Digital that the company has “come a long way.”

Fox News was the first to report that Meta is discontinuing its fact-checking program and lifting speech restrictions to “restore free expression” across its platforms, acknowledging that its current content moderation practices had “gone too far.”

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Trump said he thinks Meta’s “presentation was excellent.” 

“They have come a long way,” Trump said.

Trump’s comments come after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video announcement on Tuesday morning, saying his company is “going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms.” 

Meta plans to replace fact-checking with a “Community Notes” model similar to the one used on X, Fox reported, citing the company.

Meta’s third-party fact-checking program was established after the 2016 election to “manage content” and address misinformation on its platforms, largely driven by “political pressure,” according to company executives.

However, they acknowledged that the system had “gone too far” and that often content appeared to be flagged because of political bias.

Meta’s Chief Global Policy Director, Joel Kaplan, told Fox News Digital that the company is also revising some of its own content moderation rules. That includes those that company officials feel are “too restrictive and not allowing enough discourse around sensitive topics like immigration, trans issues and gender.”

“We want to make sure that discourse can happen freely on the platform without fear of censorship,” Kaplan told Fox News Digital. “We have the power to change the rules and make them more supportive of free expression. And we’re not just changing the rules, we are actually changing how we enforce the rules.”

Kaplan said Meta currently uses automated systems, which he said make “too many mistakes” in removing content “that doesn’t even violate our standards.”

He also stated that Meta will continue to moderate certain types of content, such as posts related to terrorism, illegal drugs, and child sexual exploitation, Fox added.