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Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced on Tuesday 7 a series of changes to the content moderation actions on his platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads, eliminating fact-checkers, slowing down the processes of taking down potentially damaging content from the social fabric and reducing/reallocating his own moderation teams - all in the…

Decision relates to just the US so far but it may affect users in Australia who follow a lot of US-based sources

Facebook and Instagram will move away from using third-party fact checkers to flag misleading content.

Movement is building a layer-2 blockchain on Ethereum using technology from Facebook's failed crypto project.

It’s a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users

Facebook ditches its fact-checking program in favor of Elon Musk's army of disinformation zombies

Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes rival’s move

Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warned Wednesday of "extremely dangerous times ahead" in an interview with AFP after social media giant Meta ended its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram.

Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the spread of online lies among more than 3 billion people who use Meta’s social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads.