It will continue to use fact-checkers outside the U.S. “for now,” even as the owner of Instagram and Facebook discontinues the practice in the U.S., said Nicola Mendelsohn, the company’s head of global business.
Meta, , will analyze how the change unfolds before deciding on a transition in other regions, Mendelsohn said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum in Davos this Monday (20).
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this month that he has decided to curb the practice, which was created nearly a decade ago to combat viral gossip spreading on the platform.
This will be more difficult outside the US, where there are stricter laws regulating how digital services monitor disinformation. The European Union requires large platforms to actively remove misleading political content and misinformation or risk heavy fines under the Digital Services Act.
“We’ll see how this goes as we implement it throughout the year,” Mendelsohn said. “So, nothing changing in the rest of the world at the moment, we are still working with these fact checkers around the world.”
Zuckerberg also said the company would work with Donald Trump, who assumed the US presidency on Monday, to combat countries that restrict free expression, blaming the US government under Biden for promoting “censorship”.
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Trump, who was temporarily banned from Facebook after the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 and called the platform “the enemy of the people”, welcomed the decision and said that Meta “has evolved a lot”.
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