The Meta fact-checking program in the U.S. will soon come to an end.
"Without further fact-checking."
Meta is making significant changes to its fact-checking program in the United States, as it will end by Monday afternoon at the latest. Joel Kaplan, the company's global policy leader, announced in a post on X that the platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will no longer have fact-checkers, and there will be no more such verifications by then. Instead, the company will implement the Community Notes program.
The Community Notes initiative, first announced in January, aims to create a less bias-prone alternative, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This new system will allow contributors to draft and evaluate notes that provide additional context about specific posts. Although the testing phase for this program began on March 18, the notes were not published immediately. Now, Kaplan indicated that Community Notes will gradually start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram, with no associated penalties.
Despite these changes in the United States, Meta will continue using its third-party fact-checking program in other countries, with plans to expand Community Notes to more regions in the future.