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US Politics

Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Meta would eliminate its use of independent third -party fact-checkers.

Mark Zuckerberg said the industry had become too political and censorious.

Politicians attacked fact-checking as a partisan infringement on speech.

Critics see other factors at work, including political spin, misinformation and polarization.

It heralds a new chapter for Silicon Valley's social media giants, which appear to be seeking better footing.

PolitiFact won its Pulitzer for fact-checking in 2007 , but it was soon after that year 's election.

The more attention fact-checkers received, the more action politicians took to counteract them.

The industry has struggled to overcome the “exaggerated hopes of its most fervent supporters”.

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