Reddit co-founder says Meta’s end to third-party fact-checking is ‘very pragmatic’

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian described Meta’s decision to end third-party fact-checking on its platforms as a “pragmatic” move, calling it a reversal of an unviable program that was impossible to do at scale or in real-time. The decision, made just before Donald Trump’s second term, aimed to replace the program with a community-based system, marking a significant shift in Meta’s approach to tackling misinformation globally. The rollback will initially impact the U.S. but not other countries, signaling a change in how Meta plans to address the spread of false information on its platforms.

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