'Real-world harm' if Meta ends fact-checks, global network warns

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's surprise announcement this week to slash content moderation policies in the United States has sparked alarm in countries such as Australia and Brazil. The tech tycoon said fact-checkers were "too politically biased" and the program had led to "too much censorship". But the International Fact-Checking Network, which includes AFP among its dozens of member organizations globally, said the censorship claim was "false". "We want to set the record straight, both...