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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Bauder

No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?

US Media Fact Checking Falters - (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago.

That seems like a simpler time — especially when you consider Meta's decision to end a fact-checking program on social media apps Facebook, Instagram and Threads and what the ramifications might be for an industry built to bring clarity and to seek truth itself.

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