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Among the changes, Meta’s use of fact-checking organisations will end abolished and the group will switch to a system of community notes – similar to those used by the X platform – instead.

Mantzarlis is highly critical of the move: “In addition to ending the fact-checking program, Zuckerberg has also announced a more lax approach to content moderation, so Meta will no longer proactively ...

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Meta had put fact-checking and content moderation policies into place after years of misinformation and violent speech proliferating on its platforms, which have caused real-world harm.

Meta's decision to lift content restrictions and replace its fact-checking program with a system like X's Community Notes is being heralded as a massive "win" for free speech by experts.

Protesters are deliberately posting false claims on Meta platforms in an attempt to call out its replacement of the fact-checking model with a community-driven system on Instagram and Facebook.

The New York Times was skewered Tuesday for a headline about Meta fact-checkers fact-checking their own critics. Meta announced that it would be ending its controversial fact-checking practices ...

Meta announced it's ending third-party fact-checking on its platforms, calling the decision a return to a “fundamental commitment to free expression.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the rules had ...

Less than two weeks before Donald Trump is reinstated as President, Meta is abandoning its fact-checking program in favor of a crowdsourced model that emphasizes “free expression.” The shift ...

Mark Zuckerberg has announced he is scrapping fact-checks on Facebook, claiming the labels intended to warn against fake news have “destroyed more trust than they have created”. Since ...

The International Fact-Checking Network has convened an emergency meeting of its members following Meta's announcement on Tuesday that it will end its third-party fact-checking partnerships in the ...