Reddit Co-Founder Supports Mark Zuckerberg’s Decision to End Meta’s Biased Third-Party ‘Fact Checking’

CNBC reports that in a recent interview, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, shared his views on Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end Meta’s biased third-party fact-checking program for platforms including Facebook and Instagram. The move was announced by Zuckerberg in January, just days before Donald Trump’s second inauguration as U.S. president.

Meta’s third-party fact-checking program, launched in 2016, claimed to combat misinformation on its platforms by partnering with fact-checking organizations in over 100 countries. However, in practice the fact checker’s extreme leftist bias was used to silence conservative voices on Zuckerberg’s platforms.

Ohanian characterized Meta’s decision as a “pragmatic” one, stating that “it is impossible to do fact-checking at scale, let alone in real-time, as Facebook was trying to do.” He added that Meta was “just winding back something that was a bad idea from the start because it was untenable.”

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