Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the dollar will be Its long-running fact-checking program claims it enables too much “review” on its company’s apps. Meta now sets an end date for fact checks on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads (at least for US users).
“By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the United States will officially end.” Policy Director Joel Kaplan announces On X. “This means there is no new fact checking, nor a fact checker.”
Instead, Meta has been slowly improving community notes. META begins to allow potential contributors to register . It’s started The system will initially be powered by the same algorithm pointed out earlier this month as the community on X. But crowdsourcing fact checks have not appeared publicly on the post yet. It sounds like this will also change with the official end of Meta’s existing fact-checking partners. “The first community notes will start to appear gradually on Facebook, Threads & Instagram without collateral penalties,” Kaplan said.
Although Meta said it hopes to finally end the fact-check completely, the company has relatively few plans for its community notes outside the United States. That may be because of officials from other countries, e.g. and has expressed concern about how changes affect false information flows around the world.
Meta’s efforts to end fact checks in the United States, along with several other policy changes early this year, marking a clear shift in social networks, just like President Trump takes office. The company also ended the company look back Protection of its services and added to Trump’s allies .
