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Meta Retains Fact-Checking Outside U.S.; Google Drops It in Europe

Meta has enthusiastically ditched U.S. fact-checking in favor of right-wing-friendly “community notes”.  But a spokesperson said on Monday that it will keep fact checkers active outside of the U.S., possibly because European regulators are more opposed to misinformation than the current U.S. regime. On the other hand, Google has told the European Commission that it will pull out of existing voluntary fact-checking commitments before these become legally required.