Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation
- Written by Ned Watt, PhD Candidate, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the spread of online lies among more than 3 billion people who use Meta’s social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
In a video, the company’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg, said fact checking had led...





