{"id":19527,"date":"2025-01-07T22:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19527"},"modified":"2025-01-08T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:24:33","slug":"meta-to-end-fact-checking-program-in-shift-ahead-of-trump-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19527","title":{"rendered":"Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta said on Tuesday that it was ending its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps, in a stark sign of how the company was repositioning itself for the Trump presidency and throwing its weight behind unfettered speech online.<\/p>\n

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said it would now allow more speech, rely on its users to correct inaccurate and false posts, and take a more personalized approach to political content. It described the changes with the language of regret, saying it had strayed too far from its values over the previous decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time to get back to our roots around free expression,\u201d Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, said in a video announcing the changes. The company\u2019s fact-checking system, he added, had \u201creached a point where it\u2019s just too many mistakes and too much censorship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Zuckerberg conceded there would be more \u201cbad stuff\u201d on the platforms as a result of the decision. \u201cThe reality is that this is a trade-off,\u201d he said. \u201cIt means that we\u2019re going to catch less bad stuff, but we\u2019ll also reduce the number of innocent people\u2019s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ever since Donald J. Trump\u2019s victory in November, few big companies have worked as overtly to curry favor with the president-elect, who, during his first administration, accused social media platforms of censoring conservative voices. In a series of announcements during this presidential transition period, Meta has sharply shifted its strategy in response to what Mr. Zuckerberg called a \u201ccultural tipping point\u201d from the election.<\/p>\n

Mr. Zuckerberg dined with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago<\/a> in November and Meta later donated $1 million<\/a> to support Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration. Last week, Mr. Zuckerberg elevated Joel Kaplan<\/a>, the highest-ranking Meta executive closest to the Republican Party, to the company\u2019s most senior policy role. And on Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg said Dana White<\/a>, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and an ally of Mr. Trump\u2019s, would join Meta\u2019s board.<\/p>\n

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Meta said on Tuesday that it was ending its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps, in a stark sign of how the company was repositioning itself for the Trump presidency and throwing its weight behind unfettered speech online.Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said it would now allow more speech, rely on its users to correct inaccurate and false posts, and take a more personalized approach to political content. It described the changes with the language of regret, saying it had strayed too far from its values over the previous decade.\u201cIt\u2019s time to get back to our roots around free expression,\u201d Mark Zuckerberg, Meta\u2019s chief executive, said in a video announcing the changes. The company\u2019s fact-checking system, he added, had \u201creached a point where it\u2019s just too many mistakes and too much censorship.\u201dMr. Zuckerberg conceded there would be more \u201cbad stuff\u201d on the platforms as a result of the decision. \u201cThe reality is that this is a trade-off,\u201d he said. \u201cIt means that we\u2019re going to catch less bad stuff, but we\u2019ll also reduce the number of innocent people\u2019s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.\u201dEver since Donald J. Trump\u2019s victory in November, few big companies have worked as overtly to curry favor with the president-elect, who, during his first administration, accused social media platforms of censoring conservative voices. In a series of announcements during this presidential transition period, Meta has sharply shifted its strategy in response to what Mr. Zuckerberg called a \u201ccultural tipping point\u201d from the election.Mr. Zuckerberg dined with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November and Meta later donated $1 million to support Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration. Last week, Mr. Zuckerberg elevated Joel Kaplan, the highest-ranking Meta executive closest to the Republican Party, to the company\u2019s most senior policy role. And on Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg said Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and an ally of Mr. Trump\u2019s, would join Meta\u2019s board.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19529,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19530,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19527\/revisions\/19530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}