JAKARTA: A coalition of Indonesian fact-checking institutions has denounced Meta’s decision to scrap its fact-checking programme in the United States, raising concerns that the tech company may do the same in other countries, exacerbating the spread of false information over digital platforms.
In a statement issued on Jan. 7, Meta announced its decision to end the current third-party fact-checking programme in the US and replace it with a system of “community notes” generated from users; an approach used by Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
