Social media companies are abandoning years of fact-checking practices as Republicans criticize it as censorship.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying the election felt like a "cultural tipping point."

Meta on Tuesday announced it will end its third-party fact-checking program and shift to a user-generated "Community Notes" format. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram said it will begin to "phase in" the Community Notes model in the United States in the next few months and will also undo efforts to reduce the amount of political content on its platforms while giving users the opportunity to tailor how much they see.