Meta not ending fact-checks outside US yet, fails to appease Brazil

The social media giant assured Brazil the policy would not extend to other countries until Meta had fully tested a new "Community Notes" system which will replace third-party fact-checkers. — Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP

BRASILIA: Meta told Brazil it would not yet end fact-checks outside the US, but its attempts to clarify its new social media policies fell flat Tuesday as the Latin American nation slammed measures which promote a "digital Wild West."

Brazil had given Meta a 72-hour deadline to explain its policy for the country, after the shock announcement last week by company chief executive Mark Zuckerberg that he was ditching independent fact-checking in the United States.