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Meta is entering its post-truth era on Monday
Early this year, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be ditching its long-running fact checking program, claiming that it has enabled too much “censorship” on the company’s apps. Now, Meta has set an end date for fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram and Threads (at least for its US users).
“By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over,” Meta’s Discover Copy
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