What Meta’s move to community moderation could mean for misinformation
- Written by Denitsa Dineva, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing and Strategy, Cardiff University
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other services has announced it will discontinue its third-party factchecking programmes, starting in the US. Journalists and anti-hate speech activists have criticised the decision as an attempt to curry favour with the incoming US president, Donald Trump, but there could be an even...