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Does fact-checking work? What the science says

Meta’s planned shift away from third-party fact-checking on Facebook in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.
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  1. David Adam
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It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook’s parent company Meta announced plans to scrap the platform’s fact-checking programme, which was set up in 2016 and pays independent groups to verify selected articles and posts.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00027-0

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