Meta’s changes to policing will lead to clash with EU and UK, say experts

Meta, whose chief executive is Mark Zuckerberg, said it wants users of its social media platforms to check each other’s posts. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Sweeping changes to the policing of Meta’s social media platforms have set the tech company on a collision course with legislators in the UK and the European Union, experts and political figures have said.

Lawmakers in Brussels and London criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to scrap factcheckers in the US for Facebook, Instagram and Threads, with one labelling it “quite frightening”.