Europe monitoring social media giants after Meta moves to halt fact-checking of US posts

The European Commission appears to be on a collision course with the US over social media giants X and Meta, while the Irish regulator is set to engage with the latter on its drastic changes to content moderation policies announced this week.

With a Trump presidency looming, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg announced his platforms would be ending third-party fact-checking on posts in the US and would instead switch to an X-style Community Notes system where users flag content as false or misleading.

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