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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, would stop working with third-party fact-checkers. The company established these extensive partnerships after the 2016 presidential election in order to slow the spread of false information. Meta’s move comes as Republicans on their way into power discuss cracking down on tech companies. The 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated backlash to this feature among conservatives, who expressed that it was a