WASHINGTON, United States — US President Joe Biden on Friday condemned tech giant Meta 's "shameful" decision to end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States."I think it's really shameful," Biden told reporters at the White House when asked about the announcement. "Telling the truth matters.
The tech tycoon said fact-checkers were "too politically biased" and the program had led to "too much censorship."As an alternative, Zuckerberg said Meta's platforms, Facebook and Instagram, would use "Community Notes," similar to the Elon Musk-owned platform X.Community Notes is a crowd-sourced moderation tool that X has promoted as the way for users to add context to posts, but researchers have repeatedly questioned its effectiveness in combating falsehoods.
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