Report: Meta to hold off on dumping fact-checkers outside the US for now

However, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major overhaul of content moderation strategies in January this year.

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Report: Meta to hold off on dumping fact-checkers outside the US for now

It appears that independent fact-checkers in India and other countries (barring the US) can continue flagging misinformation on Meta’s platforms for the time being.

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This comes days after the tech giant announced it is pulling the plug on its third-party fact-checking programme in the US and moving to a Community Notes system a controversial move that had set off alarm bells for fact-checking organisations worldwide, many of which rely on funding from Meta.

In response to criticism over the spread of misinformation on Meta-owned platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, the company had set up a system that let fact-checkers certified by the non-partisan International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) to flag and debunk fake news across its apps.

However, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major overhaul of content moderation strategies in January this year.

He said that the company would be switching out fact-checks from fact-checkers in the US with a crowdsourced Community Notes model already in place on Elon Musk-owned X.

 

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