Reddit co-founder says Meta’s end to third-party fact-checking is ‘very pragmatic’

Reddit 's co-founder says Meta 's decision to end third-party fact-checking on its platforms was a "pragmatic" one, characterizing the move as a reversal of an unviable program. In January, just days before Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president for the second time, Meta announced it would end third-party fact-checking on its platforms, a program often criticized by Trump and conservatives for what they say unfairly targeted right-wing content. In a series of sweeping policy changes at the media giant, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he would install a community-based system instead. "It was a very pragmatic change," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC at the Web Summit in Qatar on Sunday, adding "it is impossible to do fact-checking at scale, let alone in real time, as Facebook was trying to do." "In many ways, I think they were just winding back something that was a bad idea from the start because it was untenable," Ohanian added. Meta launched its global fact-checking ... Read full article.