How community notes, Meta’s replacement for fact-checkers, work

On Tuesday, Jan 7, 2025, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the company’s decision to terminate its third-party fact-checking programme, starting in the United States. Before this discontinuation, Meta had been using the services of independent fact-checking organisations to moderate content on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Under this project, Meta partnered with fact-checking organisations like DUBAWA …