What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers
Slate News8 Aug 2025

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers

In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was moving from employing professional fact-checkers to letting its users fact-check each other. If you’ve heard that it’s going perfectly, then you, too, have been exposed to misinformation.

Guest: Geoffrey Fowler, tech columnist with the Washington Post

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