Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. in a 2022 file photo. The Facebook parent company announced this week that it will end its work with fact-checkers in the U.S. and change its speech rules after years of criticism from Republicans. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Meta’s announcement it will end professional fact checking on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. has left fact checkers elsewhere around the world uncertain about their futures.
“The end of this program represents a lack of transparency and a lack of the value of the work, the journalism, in the world and the work