Why Facebook Won't Be Fact-Checking Trump Now That He's Announced Candidacy

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Just before Trump announced his 2024 candidacy for president, Facebook's parent company, Meta, issued a memo saying that Trump's speeches would be exempt from third-party fact-checking on the platform. Here's why.

independent third-party fact-checkers to apply fact-check labels on Facebook and Instagram. These fact-checkers are certified by the International Fact-Checking Network . We have reached out to IFCN for more information and will update this post if we hear back.

"The policy is problematic and inconsistent," West said."You are fact-checking all these other [claims], but you are not fact-checking the things said by people with humongous microphones. You are tying the hands of your fact checkers. [...] Some of the most egregious statements come from our politicians."

But for West, another Facebook policy was potentially more problematic: the one pertaining to content demotion. As per: "When a politician shares a specific piece of content — e.g. a link to an article, video or photo created by someone else that has been previously debunked on Facebook — we will demote that content, display a warning and reject its inclusion in ads."distrustful of information posted on Facebook, as it does not appear to have any transparency behind it.

"Fact-Checking Policies on Facebook." Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/business/help/315131736305613?id=673052479947730. Accessed 16 Nov. 2022.

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