JOHANNESBURG - Facebook is planning to stop using fact checkers.
Yes, Facebook, the Covid-19 of fake news, is planning to stop using dedicated fact checking teams that until now have been one of the few vaccines against misinformation on your parents’ favourite social media platform.
Some of the biggest fake news stories on Facebook in the last year were that the OceanGate submarine was discovered empty, Ukraine’s President Zelensky is a viral belly dancer, and chia seeds cure diabetes.