Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside US ‘for now’
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Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside US ‘for now’

Meta says it plans to keep its fact-checking program in place outside the U.S. for now, though it may eventually expand it elsewhere.

“We’ll see how it goes as we move it out over the years,” says Meta’s global business director Nicola Mendelsohn told Bloomberg in a report from Davos on Monday. “So nothing changes in the rest of the world at the moment, we’re still working with these fact checkers around the world.”

Meta had put the fact-checking guardrails in place above several years in response to criticism of how its platform was used to spread misinformation. With a new administration heading into the White House, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram announced earlier this month that it would replace their fact-checkers with a community annotation systemsimilar what’s on Elon Musk’s X.

The company may face obstacles in implementing its new program elsewhere in the world, particularly in Europe, which has regulations such as the Digital Services Act (DSA) in place to limit the spread of misleading content.