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☆ Meta fact-checkers called an emergency meeting. We got inside. Here's what happened.
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Pranav Dixit | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Meta plans to end US fact-checking partnerships in March, with payments to continue through August. Meta's global fact-checking support remains, including an IFCN Business Continuity Fund. ADHolan expressed disappointment during the conversation, describing Meta's fact-checking program as one that "positively influenced a whole ecosystem of fact-checking" and emphasized that the work was never about censorship. ADJesse Stiller, the managing editor of Check Your Fact, a Meta US fact-checking partner for five years, described the fallout. During the meeting, several fact-checkers voiced frustration not only with the program's termination but also with Zuckerberg's recent comments about fact-checkers.

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☆ Fact-checkers, targeted by MAGA loyalists, blast Zuckerberg’s assertion their work was ‘biased’
▼ + stars: | 2025-01-08 | by ( Brian Stelter | Liam Reilly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The very notion of fact-checking is under assault by a wide array of fact-challenged politicians and interest groups. But President-elect Donald Trump, who keeps fact-checkers busy and hates being corrected by them, welcomed Meta’s changes. “This is a blow to our website and the work that we do,” Jesse Stiller, managing editor of Check Your Fact, told CNN. journalists have an obligation to call out presidential candidates when they lie.”Then as now, Trump’s firehose of falsehood was the issue. Duke noted community users were also not bound by ethical guidelines to provide fair and accurate fact checks.

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Some Republicans in Congress on Tuesday celebrated Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, would roll back moderation and stop putting labels on content fact-checking partners deem misinformation. When a post had a label, it often affected the post’s distribution, meaning fewer people would see it. Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the process had led to censorship and quelled “legitimate political speech and debate.” Instead, Meta now plans to embrace a “Community Notes” style of moderation, similar to the one on Elon Musk’s X. “It’s unfortunate that this decision comes in the wake of extreme political pressure from a new administration and its supporters,” Holan wrote. Many Republicans were quick to frame Meta’s announcement as an acknowledgment of efforts to censor conservative speech.

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