Meta — whose platforms boast over 3 billion users worldwide — did not offer specifics on where in the state it plans to move the team.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and more, is moving to a community notes program over third-party fact-checkers. As part of its changes, Meta is following the lead of Elon Musk's X and moving trust and safety teams from California to Texas and other U.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, will move its “trust and safety team” out of California to Texas as the social media tech company

The tech giant’s decision to end the program comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeks to mend ties with the incoming Trump administration.

In that spirit, on Tuesday he announced that the trust and safety teams who write content policy for Facebook, Meta, and Threads would be moving from California to Texas. Facebook’s content cops will trade In & Out for Whataburger.

The social media giant, whose founder billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to make nice with the incoming Donald Trump presidential administration, isn’t stopping there. It’s also shipping its “trust and safety” moderation team out of its liberal Bay Area headquarters and sending it to conservative Texas, as well as other unspecified states.

Meta announced it would move its content reviewers and policy writers from California to Texas and other areas.

As we work to promote free expression, I think that it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there’s less concern about the bias of our teams,’ according to the Meta CEO.