This is the Guardian today, what Facebook and Instagram might look like without fact checkers from a fact Checker himself.
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It's been a big few days for Mark Zuckerberg.
Hey, everyone, I want to talk about something important today because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.
I started building social media to give people a voice.
His surprise announcement last week that his company Meta, was overhauling content moderation.
What you can and can't say on its platforms, pushing politics higher up into our feeds, and getting rid of fact checking kicked off a big few days for Jesse Stiller, too.
Let me, let me give you kind of a.
An idea of how much of a whiplash this was.
So Monday night, I had no idea that this was even being discussed.
I had just gotten off a team meeting with my bosses and the prospects for 2025 for check your Fact were looking very great.
Jesse works for a company, Check your Fact that was hired by Meta a few years ago to try to deal with the rampant, often dangerous lies and misinformation that fill timelines on apps like Instagram and Facebook.
They'd find viral posts, do sometimes days of research, and not delete the posts.
But if they were wrong, just put a little disclaimer underneath saying, this is not quite true.
And he says their company had no idea Meta was about to sack them.
We were looking to, you know, bring on people.
We were looking to, you know, expand our reach.
We were looking forward to covering the second Trump administration.
The first year we had a big plan for 2025.