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Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.

Meta’s fact-checking partners claim they were “blindsided” by the company’s decision to abandon third-party fact checking on Facebook, Instagram and Threads in favor of a Community Notes model, and some say they are now scrambling to figure out if they can survive the hole this leaves in their funding. “The most painful part of this is losing some very good experienced journalists, who will no longer be paid to research false claims found on Meta platforms,” Duke says. According to Duke, it is disappointing to hear Mark Zuckerberg accuse the organizations in Meta's US third-party fact-checking program of being “too politically biased”.

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