Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, announced on Friday that it is officially ending its “fact-checking” program in the United States.
Joel Kaplan, the company’s chief global affairs officer, stated that starting Monday, it will terminate the program for good and switch to a community notes system, similar to Elon Musk’s X.
‘We don’t expect this process to be perfect, and we’ll continue to improve as we learn.’
Kaplan declared, “By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over.”
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“That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers,” he continued. “We announced in January we’d be winding down the program & removing penalties. In place of fact checks, the first Community Notes will start appearing gradually across Facebook, Threads & Instagram,
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