Meta ends its fact-checking program, replacing it with Community Notes

In brief: Facebook is making one of the biggest changes in a decade later today: it will officially end its fact-checking program in the US. In its place will be the Community Notes feature popularized on Twitter/X. And it's not just happening on Facebook – Instagram and Threads are killing off fact checking, too. "By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over," Meta's recently installed policy chief Joel Kaplan announced in a post on X. "That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers." By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over. That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers. We announced in January we'd be winding down the program & removing penalties. In place of fact checks, the first Community Notes will start… – Joel Kaplan (@joel_kaplan) April 4, 2025 On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company's third-party fact checkers had become to ... Read full article.