{"id":17255,"date":"2025-01-13T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/will-the-eu-fight-for-the-truth-on-facebook-and-instagram\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:37:33","slug":"will-the-eu-fight-for-the-truth-on-facebook-and-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/will-the-eu-fight-for-the-truth-on-facebook-and-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Meta abandons third-party factchecking in an ostensibly political move, the future of facts elsewhere remains murky<\/p>\n

Factcheckers had no doubt about the real audience for the news this week \u2013 delivered via Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u2019s medium of choice, the awkward video message<\/a> \u2013 that, starting in the US, Meta<\/a> would abandon professional, third-party factchecking<\/a> across its networks in favor of the user-powered \u201ccommunity notes\u201d model used on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all intended to curry favor with Trump,\u201d one factchecker wrote as soon as the news dropped, on the private WhatsApp channel where the community gathered to vent. Their public<\/a> responses<\/a> made<\/a> the same point a little more diplomatically.<\/p>\n

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\nAs Meta abandons third-party factchecking in an ostensibly political move, the future of facts elsewhere remains murky
\nFactcheckers had no doubt about the real audience for the news this week \u2013 delivered via Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s medium of choice, the awkward video message \u2013 that, starting in the US, Meta would abandon professional, third-party factchecking across its networks in favor of the user-powered \u201ccommunity notes\u201d model used on X.
\n\u201cThis is all intended to curry favor with Trump,\u201d one factchecker wrote as soon as the news dropped, on the private WhatsApp channel where the community gathered to vent. Their public responses made the same point a little more diplomatically. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Meta abandons third-party factchecking in an ostensibly political move, the future of facts elsewhere remains murky Factcheckers had no doubt about the real audience for the news this week \u2013 delivered via Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s medium of choice, the awkward video message \u2013 that, starting in the US, Meta would abandon professional, third-party factchecking across …<\/p>\n

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