9 Jan 2025

Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers

From Morning Report, 8:25 am on 9 January 2025

Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style "community notes" Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg says it is a matter of promoting free speech but there are concenrs it will make it easier for disinformation to spread. John Kerr spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira