Meta’s chief global affairs officer promised Tuesday on Fox News his company would “work with” President-elect Donald Trump to counter censorship amid a transition to a new community note system.

The tech giant announced Tuesday it would move away from its fact-checking program and instead employ a community note system similar to that of Elon Musk’s X. Heavily debated topics like gender identity and immigration will also be subjected to fewer restrictions under the change, the company said.

Joel Kaplan, the chief global affairs officer, said Meta intends to work with Trump to counter censorship of political thought on Meta’s platforms.

“We’ve got a real opportunity now,” he said. “We’ve got a new administration, a new president coming in, we’re big defenders of free expression and that makes a difference,” Kaplan said. “One of the things we’ve experienced is that when you have a U.S. president and administration that’s pushing for censorship, it just makes it open season for other governments around the world that don’t even have the protections of the First Amendment to really put pressure on U.S. companies.

“We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on that kind of thing around the world.”

The move follows Meta in December donating $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meeting with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago. Zuckerberg also announced Monday that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White, a strong ally of Trump, would be joining Meta’s board of directors.

Zuckerberg in July also described Trump’s reaction to the assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, as “one of the most bada– things I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Meta in August admitted to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, that it caved to pressure from the Biden administration to censor content related to COVID-19.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg wrote in the letter. “I believe the pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump has nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, was previously banned from Instagram after expressing skepticism of vaccines.

A White House spokesperson said in August it believed “tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present.”

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