Expanding Meta’s Community Notes to countries outside the US could “pose significant human rights risks,” according to the tech giant’s quasi-independent Oversight Board. The board expressed concerns ...

Meta's week of bad news continued when its own oversight board released an assessment of the company's plans to continue avoiding third-party fact-checking on its platforms, which include Facebook, ...

Meta will end its eight-year partnership with independent American journalists, including PolitiFact, to identify false information and hoaxes on its platforms. Meta’s content moderation approach will ...

Duh. The quasi-independent board says that expanding Community Notes outside the US — where it launched in lieu of fact checkers in early 2025 — could “pose significant human rights risks and ...

Meta began to pivot away from using salaried teams of fact-checkers to the crowd-sourced Community Notes model just over a year ago, in March 2025. At the time, some of Meta’s top execs cited bias ...