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Biden blasts 'shameful' Meta decision to scrap US fact-checking

  • US President Joe Biden criticized Meta for ending fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, calling the decision 'really shameful' and contrary to American values.
  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the shift to user-generated community notes, raising concerns about misinformation and real-world harm from the International Fact-Checking Network.
  • The International Fact-Checking Network warned that stopping fact-checking worldwide could lead to political instability and violence in vulnerable countries.
  • Meta's Oversight Board co-chair Michael McConnell expressed concerns over the timing of the decision, suggesting it appears to be influenced by political pressures related to President-elect Donald Trump.
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In an open letter to the public in early 2025, Joel Kaplan, Meta’s chief global affairs officer, said that because of free expression, “all the good, bad, and ugly is on display.” This is how he began his statement on their decision to remove third-party fact-checkers from Facebook. They said they started using fact-checking in 2016 due to “societal and political pressure to moderate content,” and over the past nine years, they have used complex…

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, announced on January 7, 2024 that he will put an end to the independent verification program in the United States (known as 3PFC) to replace them with “community notes similar to those of X” , and accused fact-checking organizations that were part of it—without showing evidence—of being “very biased politically” and having “destroyed more confidence than they have created.” The Meta entry stops counting on fact-chec…

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