Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers out of the US ‘for now’

Meta says it plans to keep its fact-checking program outside the US for now, though it may eventually expand it to other places.

“We’ll see how it goes as we take it out over the years,” said Meta’s head of global business, Nicola Mendelsohn He told Bloomberg In a report from Davos on Monday. “So nothing is changing in the rest of the world at the moment, we are still working with fact-checkers around the world.”

He was dead Establish fact-checking barriers In his place Several years In response to criticism about how its platform is being used to spread misinformation. With a new administration entering the White House, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram announced earlier this month that it would do so Replace fact checkers with a community feedback systemsimilar to What’s going on in Elon Musk’s X.

The company may face obstacles in implementing its new program elsewhere in the world, especially in Europe, which has regulations such as the Digital Services Act (Daily subsistence allowance) implemented to limit the spread of deceptive content.