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Meta Ends Fact Checking, Goes for Community Notes Instead
Mint New Delhi
|January 08, 2025
Meta Platforms chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced a decision to do away with the company's long-standing fact-checking teams—choosing instead to establish a "community notes" mechanism akin to Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter.
Meta Platforms chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced a decision to do away with the company's long-standing fact-checking teams—choosing instead to establish a "community notes" mechanism akin to Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter. In a video posted on his Instagram account, Zuckerberg labeled the move as "time to get back to our roots of free expression on Facebook and Instagram."
This story is from the January 08, 2025 edition of Mint New Delhi.
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