https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/08/dispiriting-a-factchecker-reacts-to-meta-facebook-move-to-scrap-role

Mark Zuckerberg accused fact-checkers in US of making biased decisions

The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday his company, Meta, would be scrapping factcheckers in the US, accusing them of making biased decisions and saying he wanted to enable greater free speech. Meta uses third-party independent factcheckers around the world. Here, one of them who works for the Full Fact organisation in London, explains what they do and reacts to Zuckerberg’s “dispiriting” allegation.