Meta announces the end of its fact-checking program in the United States

Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) will end its fact-checking program in the United States, a major setback in its content moderation policy, its founder and boss Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday.

“We will get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community ratings, similar to X (formerly Twitter), starting in the United States,” Mark Zuckerberg said in a social media post.

The AFP participates in more than 26 languages ​​in a fact-checking program developed by Facebook, which pays more than 80 media outlets around the world to use their “fact-checks” on its platform, on WhatsApp and on Instagram.