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Mark Zuckerberg takes Meta’s hostility toward journalism to new level [1]
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Date: 2025-02
No more room for journalism. In a video posted on Facebook on January 7, Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his company's new policy on political information and debate. The billionaire says Meta will “get rid of fact-checkers” – who have been accused of helping destroy online trust rather than repairing it. Instead, they will be replaced with a system derived from X's “Community Notes,” leaving it to users to verify the reliability of information themselves.
This announcement, which was all the more astonishing given the energy with which Meta previously defended fact-checking as the way to combat disinformation on its platforms, was followed by other strategic innovations that betray a clear purpose. The new policy’s obvious goal is to pay allegiance to Donald Trump by quickly “Muskifying” its platforms, which have more than three billion daily users, according to Meta’s figures.
To this end, Zuckerberg is embracing some of X boss Elon Musk’s favorite subjects by accusing traditional media of having “pushed to censor more and more.” RSF views this new policy, which would initially apply only to the United States, as part of a global strategy of marginalizing journalism and its actors in the name of a freedom of expression perverted to serve ideological interests.
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