Scrapping the BBC’s discredited ‘Verify’ would save licence-payers a fortune with no downside

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FACEBOOK’S scrapping of its left-wing “fact-checkers” is a long overdue victory for free speech. When can we expect the BBC’s discredited “Verify” outfit to go too?

For years the social media giant skewed its content for the Left, relegating or deleting conservative posts and even colluding with the US Democrats.

Often, harmless material was ­censored and posters needlessly banned for wrongspeak.

But with Trump’s re-election, Mark Zuckerberg has changed his tune.