Social media giant Meta said on Tuesday it was rolling back on its use of third-party fact-checkers on its platform, starting with the US.
Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement in a video statement, claiming that “fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the US.”
Many conservatives have long described the fact-checking programs as censorship. Elon Musk’s X platform, which Zuckerberg said the new Meta system aims to emulate, has already abandoned fact checkers and replaced them with community notes.
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