Meta Plans To Ditch Third-Party Fact-Checking Program

The new program will use crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users instead of third parties.

Facebook and Instagram owner, Meta, said it is ditching its third-party fact-checking program.

The tech giant will get rid of its fact-checking program with independent third parties.

The decision comes due to expert fact checkers having their own biases and too much content being fact checked.

Meta said that its approach of building complex systems to manage content on its platforms has “gone too far.” The company added it has made “too many mistakes” by censoring too much content.

The company is replacing the program with ‘Community Notes’ written by users similar to the model used by social media platform ‘X.’

It will use crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users instead of third parties.

The new method is expected to allow “more speech” by lifting some restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion.

The new system will be phased in over the next couple of months.