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Meta officially says goodbye to its US fact-checkers on Monday


Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan. Meta announced this significant

“We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality,” Meta’s hateful conduct policy reads. Meta is modeling its new fact-checking efforts after Community Notes at Elon Musk’s X, which put the onus of moderation in part on other users rather than paid professionals. One Facebook page manager, who spread the viral, fake claim that ICE will pay people $750 to tip them off about undocumented immigrants, told ProPublica that the end of the fact-checking program is “great information.”

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