The company announced on Tuesday that it would abandon fact-checking by a third party. Meta is known, among other things, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram.
15:50•Updated 16:32
The technology company Meta announces that it intends to make significant changes to its moderation practices on the social media platforms it owns.
With the changes, the company waives, among other things, fact checks performed by a third party in the United States.
– We’re going to ditch fact-checkers and replace them with community annotations, like X (formerly Twitter), Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says on social media.
The company owns, among other things, the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram and the messaging service WhatsApp.
In Meta’s announcement, the decision regarding the changes is justified with similar wording, which, for example, many Republicans and the owner of X Elon Musk has previously used. According to Zuckerberg, the changes were made because “fact checkers have been too politically biased” and “destroyed more trust than created it, especially in the United States.”
The owner of Meta also added, “the recent elections seem to have been a cultural turning point, with which freedom of speech is again prioritized.”
Zuckerberg has recently tried to improve his relations with the future president of the United States to Donald Trump. Among other things, Meta has donated one million dollars to Trump’s inauguration fund.
Source: AFP
The news is updated.