{"id":17159,"date":"2025-01-08T21:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/brazil-says-meta-getting-rid-of-factcheckers-is-bad-for-democracy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:37:57","slug":"brazil-says-meta-getting-rid-of-factcheckers-is-bad-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/brazil-says-meta-getting-rid-of-factcheckers-is-bad-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil says Meta getting rid of factcheckers is \u2018bad for democracy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian officials also ask tech giant to clarify whether it intends to implement changes in country within 30 days<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the social media giant Meta to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/07\/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content\">end factchecking<\/a> in the United States is \u201cbad for democracy\u201d, Brazil\u2019s newly appointed communication minister, Sidonio Palmeira, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, stunned many with his announcement on Tuesday that he was pulling the plug on factchecking at Facebook and Instagram in the US, citing concerns about political bias.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/08\/brazil-meta-fact-checking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bf3671bf75f43e816e7168ea103870832ea1602d\/0_358_5370_3222\/master\/5370.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6cf10d5367682fb83b5cde5af02947f3\" title=\"Brazil says Meta getting rid of factcheckers is \u2018bad for democracy\u2019\" \/>Brazilian officials also ask tech giant to clarify whether it intends to implement changes in country within 30 days<br \/>\nThe decision by the social media giant Meta to end factchecking in the United States is \u201cbad for democracy\u201d, Brazil\u2019s newly appointed communication minister, Sidonio Palmeira, said on Wednesday.<br \/>\nMeta\u2019s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, stunned many with his announcement on Tuesday that he was pulling the plug on factchecking at Facebook and Instagram in the US, citing concerns about political bias. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian officials also ask tech giant to clarify whether it intends to implement changes in country within 30 days The decision by the social media giant Meta to end factchecking in the United States is \u201cbad for democracy\u201d, Brazil\u2019s newly appointed communication minister, Sidonio Palmeira, said on Wednesday. Meta\u2019s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, stunned &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/brazil-says-meta-getting-rid-of-factcheckers-is-bad-for-democracy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brazil says Meta getting rid of factcheckers is \u2018bad for democracy\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}