The article takes until paragraph 15 to mention that the claim in the title, "abandons fact-checking", is false, and what they are actually doing is switching to a different type of fact-checking, namely via community notes.
This is despite the fact that the Meta announcement they link in paragraph 4 about "stopping fact-checking" [1], states in its very first line: "Starting in the US, we are ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model."
This is despite the fact that the Meta announcement they link in paragraph 4 about "stopping fact-checking" [1], states in its very first line: "Starting in the US, we are ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model."
[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mis...