The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has described this Friday Meta’s decision to change the third-party verification program to one based on community notes as “shameful” and has criticised that it is “completely contrary to everything that is America”.
“I think it’s really shameful,” Biden said, criticising that “any idea of moving away from fact-checking (…) is simply contrary to American justice”.
The president, who will leave office on January 20 after Donald Trump’s electoral victory, has insisted that “telling the truth matters”. “I know I’m on national television, but you are all local reporters and national reporters,” he stressed.
“It is completely contrary to everything that is America. We want to tell the truth. We have not always done that as a nation,” he stressed.
The firm said on Monday that it would adopt a content verification system based on community notes, with an eye to the one currently used by social network X, to combat misinformation on its services.
Since 2016, Meta has had a team of independent fact-checkers, who review the content shared through its social networks and rate it according to its accuracy through different detailed and original reports.
The technology company has decided to end the third-party verification program that it launched in 2016, through which independent expert organizations offered users more information about what they saw online, with the aim of giving them more context and being able to combat misinformation.
