Meta said it plans to keep its fact-checking program outside the US for now, though it may expand elsewhere.
“We’ll see how that goes as we move it over the years,” Meta’s head of global business Nicola Mendelsohn Bloomberg said in a report from Davos on Monday. “So there is no change in the rest of the world at the moment, we are still working with fact checkers around the world.”
It’s meta put up fact-checking guardrails above the place several years in response to criticism of how its platform is being used to spread misinformation. With a new administration entering the White House, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram announced earlier this month replace its fact-checkers with a system of community notessimilar to what is in place of Elon Musk’s X.
The company may face obstacles in implementing its new program anywhere in the world, especially in Europe, with regulations such as the Digital Services Act (DSA) in place to prevent the spread of fraudulent content.