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US President Joe Biden on Friday condemned tech giant Meta’s “shameful” decision to end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.
“I think it’s really embarrassing,” Biden told reporters at the White House when asked about the announcement. “Telling the truth matters.”
Biden added: “You think it doesn’t matter if they let print, or let millions of people read, things that are just not true? I mean, I want to know what all this is about. is
“It’s the exact opposite of everything in America. We want to tell the truth.”
Earlier, White House Press Secretary Karen Jean-Pierre declined to comment on the decision.
Meta founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg sounded the alarm Tuesday when he announced that his tech company was conducting fact-checking on its platforms in the United States.
The tech tycoon said fact-checkers were “too politically biased” and the program led to “too much censorship.”
Alternatively, Zuckerberg said Meta’s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, would use “community notices” similar to Elon Musk-owned Platform X.
Community Notes is a crowd-sourced moderation tool promoted by X as a way for users to add context to posts, but researchers have repeatedly questioned its effectiveness in combating falsehoods. is
Metta’s decision comes after years of criticism from supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, among others, that conservative voices were being censored or suppressed under the guise of fighting misinformation, a claim that professional facts are not. Testers strongly reject.
AFP currently works with Facebook’s fact-checking program in 26 languages, including in the United States and the European Union.
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