What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers

The truth is, Zuckerberg’s new system isn’t working very well.
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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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