Less than two weeks before Donald Trump is reinstated as President, Meta is abandoning its fact-checking program in favor of a crowdsourced model that emphasizes “free expression.” The shift marks a profound change in how the company moderates content on its platforms—and has sparked fierce debate over its implications for misinformation and hate speech online. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Meta, which operates Facebook, Instagram and Threads, had long funded fact-checking efforts to review content.
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