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Meta’s move to end fact-checking reflects turn toward freewheeling internet | Elections
Mark Zuckerberg’s invocation of ‘cultural tipping point’ comes as number of fact-checking initiatives has plateaued.
“This move by Meta is definitely part of a larger trend, with fact-checking undergoing some headwinds globally,” John P Wihbey, associate professor of media innovation and technology at Northeastern University in Canada, told Al Jazeera. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, looks on during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis” in Washington, DC, the United States, on January 31, 2024 [Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ AFP]If not over, the era of formal fact-checking initiatives at least appears to be in retreat. “I consider Meta’s decision to be part of a widespread move among US corporations to pre-emptively submit to Trump’s expected demands, which will of course involve the attempt to abolish the very notion of not just fact-checking but also the existence of facts,” Stephan Lewandowsky, a psychology professor at the University of Bristol who studies misinformation, told Al Jazeera.
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