As Meta gets rid of fact-checkers, misinformation is going viral

Meta is exhibiting its third -party facts from third -party providers in the United States while introducing a bonus program for creators that they pay for viral content.

The time of these changes in Meta could intensify the prevalence of misinformation, so that after Prublica.

In the past, content manufacturers could not monetize posts that thought the facts were wrong. But now these guidelines no longer apply because Meta is withdrawal Content moderation. Instead, the founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will pursue a similar approach to the Community notes of X, in which certain users can add notes to markers in order to identify misleading content.

Meta will not transition His factual examination by March, but already false content is spreading. A Facebook page manager who spread the viral, fake claim This ice cream pays 750 US dollars to hand it over because of immigrants without papers, and told Prublica that the end of the fact program was “great information”.

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