"Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything," Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit devoted to media literacy, said in a statement.

Meta is scrapping its third party fact-checking service in the US after nine years and replacing it with a "community notes" system, similar to the one used by X. It says it will help promote free ...

As Meta announced the end of its third-party fact-checking programme in the United States — a move that is being seen as the company reorienting itself for the new Trump era — a palpable sense of ...