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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement to curb censorship efforts that used biased fact-checkers seems to be ticking off all the right people.

In a surprise move on Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced that his Meta platforms, Facebook and Instagram were going back to their “roots.”

“We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said.

And here’s where it really gets good:

“More specifically,” Zuckerberg continued, “we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”

While champions of free speech and many on the “right” cheered the announcement, the news didn’t sit well with the so-called “fact-checkers” and those who believe them.

Case in point, the New York Times posted a headline many found both confounding and hilarious.

As the Times article posted to X stated: “Meta fact-checkers were the problem. Fact-checkers rule that false.”

That headline doesn’t appear to be a joke and conservative activist Christopher Rufo made sure X users knew by highlighting the curious screed with: “They really wrote this and then published it.”

Needless to say, Rufo’s X post garnered plenty of reaction and folks had fun with it on X:

Say that 10 times fast.

It sure does.

They really don’t.

Even the satirical Babylon Bee didn’t have to adjust the angle to make what should be a satirical headline the reality.

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