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Facebook owner Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking program and will instead rely on its users to report misinformation.
The social media platform said Tuesday it would “allow more speech by removing restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations” and “take a more personalized to the political content”.
Starting in the US, Meta will move to a so-called “community notes” model, similar to that used by Elon Musk’s X, which allows users to add context to controversial or misleading posts. The Meta itself will not write community notes.
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