Meta’s decision to discontinue the third-party “fact-checking” program on its massive social platforms, starting in the US – understood to be a shift toward free speech – has sent shock waves throughout the fact checking industry that developed over the past years of unprecedented online censorship.
But these third-party groups that are directly affected by Meta doing away with one of the most obvious parts of the censorship mechanisms on Facebook, Instagram, etc., are not the only ones left reeling because of the move.
