Meta terminates the third-party fact-checking scheme

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Facebook owner Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking program and instead relying on its users to report misinformation.

The social media platform on Tuesday said it would “allow more speech by lifting restrictions on certain topics that are part of mainstream speech and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations” and “taking a more personalized approach to the political content”.

Starting from the United States, Meta will move to a model called “community notes”, similar to that employed by Elon Musk’s X, which allows users to add context to controversial or misleading posts. Meta itself will not write community notes.

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