Meta will continue to check facts 'for now' outside the US

The European Union requires large platforms to actively cull deceptive political content and disinformation or risk heavy fines under the Digital Services Act

Chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said this month that he decided to pull back on the practice because the complex systems were unfairly censoring users. File Picture: Yui Mok/PA

Meta will continue to use its fact-checkers outside of the US “for now”, even as the Instagram and Facebook owner does away with the practice at home, the company’s head of global business Nicola Mendelsohn said.

Meta, which said it will replace third-party fact-checkers in the US with a community notes system, will see how the change plays out before deciding about a transition in other regions, Ms Mendelsohn said in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.