Instagram’s “fact-checking” program is killing memes

Instagram was once one of the best places for sharing and enjoying memes. However, earlier this year, Instagram mass purged over 30 popular meme pages and reduced the circulation of memes on the platform.

Now with the recent mass rollout of its “fact-checking” program, Instagram has started to slowly kill off the remaining memes by hiding many of them behind a “False Information” notice.

As we reported previously, this notice was used to censor a meme of climate activist Greta Thunberg which shows her eating on a train while hungry African children look on from outside the train window.

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