As of Monday, April 7, the era of Facebook, Instagram and threads using fact checks to verify information on its platform is over, according to META’s chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. He said In posts on x“By Monday afternoon, our fact checking program in the United States will officially end. This means there are no new fact checks, and no fact checkers.”
In early January, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said company Planning to go Slope Ten-year Historical Plan for Using Third Party Fact Checker Approved by the International Fact-Check Network to verify Facebook and Instagram posts, including videos and images.
Meta will now use community notes generated by the user itself. “Based on fact checks, the first community notes will start to appear gradually on Facebook, Threads & Instagram without collateral penalties,” Kaplan said in his post.
Meta’s announcement in early January came weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term. This is part of a huge shift among some of the top tech companies, including Apple, Amazon and Google, to get closer to the new administration’s agenda. X boss Elon Musk responded to Kaplan’s Posted on X “Cool.”
