Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Peter Jacobsen
“Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, recently made a big announcement: the platforms are going to stop fact-checking user posts. Instead, Meta will be moving to a community-driven system (similar to X’s ‘community notes’). The move represents an about-face for Zuckerberg. In early 2018, Zuckerberg voluntarily testified before Congress to apologetically discuss Facebook’s role in spreading Russian disinformation. It was around this time that Facebook rolled out fact-checks. Meta’s fact-checking was subject to scrutiny within months of its implementation. Much of the scrutiny has stemmed from Meta getting fact-checks wrong on several major issues over the last few years, including the Covid-19 lab-leak theory and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.” (01/17/25)
https://fee.org/articles/zuckerberg-is-removing-fact-checkers-did-he-just-have-a-change-of-heart/