Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the suspension of Meta's fact-checking program on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the United States. The program, which utilized media organizations to identify and flag false information, will be replaced with user-generated 'community notes'.
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Here is a guide to how it works, following Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement on January 6 that he was halting the programme in the United States.Meta has since 2016 tasked journalists with assessing false information on its platforms under its “third-party fact-checking” programme — which currently has 80 media organisations working on it.
To be certified by the IFCN, media organisations must meet its standards of editorial quality, neutrality and independence. This causes the misleading post to become less widely viewed on the social platform and a rating such as “false” or “misleading” to appear alongside the post.
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