Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shut down his third party fact-checking system on Facebook, citing political bias at the fact-checking organizations that has gone "too far."

Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

Mark Zuckerberg claimed the Biden administration pressured Facebook to remove posts discussing COVID-19 vaccine side effects, even if true. He highlighted instances where officials demanded the removal of memes and satire,