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What do researchers think about Facebook abandoning fact-checking?
Meta, a US-based fact-checking company, has said that its tool removing false posts on Facebook and Instagram is working and that users find value in the labels after fact-checkers rate them. This showed up in decisions about what to fact-check and how, Meta’s Chief Global Affairs officer Joel Kaplan said. Meta was founded in 2014…
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Meta’s Fact-Checking partners say they were blindsided by the decision
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said Meta’s third-party fact-checking programme is “too politically biased” and it is removing its funding from the ecosystem. Meta’s CEO Joel Kaplan said that the platform is switching to a “community notes” model in which users will be asked to verify their posts and videos. The move was made in…