Meta pivots to community fact-checking ahead of Trump term

Update: 2025-01-09

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This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg announced some big changes to content moderation strategy. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp will no longer be contracting with third-party fact-checkers from the media and nonprofits as it has since 2016. Instead, Meta will follow the lead of X under Elon Musk and rely on crowd-sourced Community Notes to provide additional context on posts. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with David Gilbert, a reporter at Wired who covers online disinformation and extremism, to learn more about Meta’s latest pivot.

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Meta pivots to community fact-checking ahead of Trump term

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Meta pivots to community fact-checking ahead of Trump term

Marketplace / Marketplace Tech Staff

Meta pivots to community fact-checking ahead of Trump term