On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X. “We’ve seen this approach work on X,” said Joel Kaplan, Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer in a statement. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Thanks to the likes of Musk and Zuckerberg, social media is simply getting worse.