Meta gets rid of fact-checkers and replaces them with Community Notes

Posted by Isabelle Szczepanski le 7 janvier 2025

Mark Zuckerberg has announced a complete turnaround in content removal policies on Meta, with the end of fact-checkers, who he says have operated political censorship, and will be replaced by Community Notes. He is also announcing a concentration of his networks’ resources on the removal of proven illegal content. It is not yet known what consequences these announcements will have in Europe, where Meta finances numerous fact-checking services for traditional media.

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