09 January 2025 - Meta ends fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram
Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers
Liv McMahon, Zoe Kleinman and Courtney Subramanian (BBC News, 07/01/2025)
Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style "community notes" where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users.
No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?
David Bauder (AP News, 09/01/2025)
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago.
Why did Mark Zuckerberg end Facebook and Instagram’s factchecking program?
Bake Montgomery (The Guardian, 07/01/2025)
Meta is shifting to the right, following the prevailing political winds blowing through the United States. A more partisan era now looms for the social media giant and its corporate leaders, though Mark Zuckerberg himself has few personal politics other than ambition.
The danger of Meta’s big fact-checking changes
Li Zhou (Vox, 08/01/2025)
With less than two weeks before the new Trump administration takes office, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced a sweeping set of policy changes that will do away with fact-checkers on the company’s platforms and reduce restrictions on the posts its users can share.
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