Irish Examiner view: Meta chooses revenue over responsibility

End of fact-checking programme

Mark Zuckerberg dined at the Trump estate in Mar-a-Lago in November, and Meta has donated to the Trump inauguration fund. 

On Tuesday, Meta — the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — announced that it would end its fact-checking programme, which was originally introduced to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps. 

Meta said that it would rely on users to correct false or inaccurate posts.