From the article linked: "The 40-year-old billionaire said that, starting in the US, Meta would “get rid of factcheckers and replace them with community notes similar to X” "

You are right this does not apply to Europe where you guys have strict laws that you actually enforce. But here in the US heaven forbid that the "Free" market has any sort of regulation that might make multi billion/trillion dollar companies have to work a little harder to not destroy the lives, health, or environment of our countrymen.

This is just the beginning and i sadly dont see it getting any better for several years. Large companies will have more free reign to do what they please in the US even more so than the current status quo

^^^ These are the kind of Community Notes we need.

Hopefully Trump strongarms Europe into getting rid of those laws and restoring free speech. IIUC Trump explicitly mentioned he'd do this as part of this work with Zuck.