Experts have criticized the watchdog’s response to Meta’s major overhaul of fact-checking. But was it ever a real check on power in the first place?

The co-chairwoman of Meta’s oversight board said she is “very concerned” by the social media company’s decision to scrap its top-down fact-checking system and instead opt for X’s community notes approach to combat disinformation and hate speech.

The body's co-chair says moving to community notes could have a big impact on gender rights and minority groups.

Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and novelist Khaled Mansour have warned that disinformation ‘can very much kill’

Schmidt, has expressed "serious concerns" about the potential fallout from Meta's decision to discontinue third-party fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram. She fears the move could negatively impact minority groups,

The body's co-chair says moving to community notes could have a big impact on gender rights and minority groups.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced plans Tuesday to replace fact-checkers with a user-based system known as "community notes." Fact-checkers who were put in place in the wake of Donald Trump's 2016 election have proven to be "too politically biased" and have destroyed "more trust than they've created,

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The move to replace third-party fact-checking with user-written “community notes” similar to those on Trump backer Elon Musk’s social platform X is the latest example of a media company moving to accommodate the incoming administration.