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Meta adopts "Community Notes" program akin to Musk's X; ditches third-party fact checking

Social media giant Meta (NASDAQ:META) is ending its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S. and will instead move to a "Community Notes" program to avoid frequent and unnecessary censorship on ...
Entrepreneur

Meta Ends Fact-Checking Program, Replaces It With New System: ‘We’ve Seen This Approach Work on X’

Meta stated on Tuesday that it is ending its independent fact-checking program in favor of a Community Notes program written by users. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that Donald Trump’s election is a ...
Poynter

Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking partnership with US partners. Here’s how that program works.

Meta will end its eight-year partnership with independent American journalists, including PolitiFact, to identify false information and hoaxes on its platforms. Meta’s content moderation approach will ...
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Meta Ending Fact-Checking Program, Will Replace It With 'Community Notes'

Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking program and introducing a 'community notes' system similar to the one used by X. This change, announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday (January 7), ...
TechCrunch

Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program

Meta’s newest social network, Threads, is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook’s network for a few months. Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted that the ...
The Washington Post

Elon Musk says X users fight falsehoods. The falsehoods are winning.

When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he laid off swaths of workers tasked with moderating the platform and embraced an experimental approach: asking users to fact-check one another. Musk has ...