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.
Meta is abandoning fact checking—this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation
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