Meta's actions would lead to a 'world without facts' and 'that's a world that's right for a dictator,' Maria Ressa warns
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The veteran journalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 said Meta’s decision meant “extremely dangerous times ahead” for journalism, democracy, and social media users. Meta’s announcement on Tuesday was seen by analysts as an attempt by Zuckerberg to appease US President-elect Donald Trump before his inauguration this month.
Ressa, who is also a US citizen, rejected Zuckerberg’s assertion that fact-checkers had become “too politically biased” and “destroyed more trust than they’ve created.”Rappler statement on Meta ending fact-check program in the US “Mark Zuckerberg has ultimate power,” she said, “and he chooses wrongly to prioritize profit, Facebook’s annual profits, over safety of the people on the platforms.”AFP also currently works in 26 languages with Facebook’s fact-checking program, in which Facebook pays to use fact-checks from around 80 organizations globally on its platform, WhatsApp, and on Instagram.
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