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What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers

What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers

Update: 2025-08-081
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In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was moving from employing professional fact-checkers to letting its users fact-check each other. If you’ve heard that it’s going perfectly, then you, too, have been exposed to misinformation.


Guest: Geoffrey Fowler, tech columnist with the Washington Post


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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Ethan Oberman, and Patrick Fort.



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What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers

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