Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Tuesday that it will be discontinuing its third-party fact-checking program in favor of a new Community Notes initiative. This new program will involve users contributing to fact-checking efforts, similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social media platform X.
The decision to end the fact-checking program with independent third parties was made by Meta due to concerns about biases among expert fact checkers and the high volume of content being fact-checked. The company will now rely on a Community Notes model that leverages crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users.
