Meta has ended its fact-checking program, among other major changes.
Here’s what to know.
‘Too Politically Biased’
Meta introduced the fact-checking program in 2016 after Donald Trump won that year’s presidential election.
After the election, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he would work with “respected fact-checking organizations” to reduce misinformation on Facebook. Soon after, the fact-checking program was formally unveiled, expressing the belief that “providing more context can help people decide for themselves what to trust and what to share.”
The organizations that were part of the program, including Snopes, were able to analyze posts. If they decided a post contained false information, it would either get flagged, with the fact-check note accompanying it, or removed….