Zuckerberg must ensure free speech worldwide | @TheIPA 
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As the world prepares for the inauguration of Donald Trump later this month, Mark Zuckerberg has announced Meta will axe its fact checking program from its platforms in the United States, replacing it with a ‘Community Notes’ approach, similar to that of X.

This is a rude awakening for those journalists, academics, NGOs, and bureaucrats who have made a living by branding speech they disagree with as ‘misinformation’ and conspiring to suppress its circulation. This censorship system has bred the fact-checkers, which, until now, were empowered by Meta.