You probably didn’t have X CEO Linda Yaccarino praising Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on your CES 2025 bingo card, yet here we are. Speaking during a keynote address in Las Vegas, Yaccarino described Meta’s decision to end its longtime fact checking program and implement community notes as “exciting” and “validating.

X leadership has been taking a series of victory laps since the U.S. presidential election, and CEO Linda Yaccarino has already set the stage for its 2025 ambitions in streaming, money, and AI. Much of that has already launched,

Rather than using staff fact-checkers, Meta said Tuesday that it would use the community notes model, following in the path of X.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino shared her enthusiasm for Meta's adoption of "Community Notes," but it hasn't been so successful for X.

Linda Yaccarino was speaking hours after Meta announced it was to move away from using third-party fact checkers to flag misleading content in favour of user-based notes