The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.

When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook, Instagram and Threads would end third-party fact-checking, the political world read it as a kind of capitulation — a company sacrificing its values on the altar of Donald Trump and the modern GOP’s “free speech” politics.