The White House does not want to respond to the decision by Facebook parent company Meta to stop independent fact-checkers in the United States. There has been a lot of commotion internationally about ending the collaboration.
“If a company or business makes a decision, we simply do not comment on it. So I’m not going to comment on this either,” a White House spokesperson told reporters on Friday.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that the actual checking of messages by experts would stop because they were said to be “too politically biased” and the collaboration led to “too much censorship”. Meta, also the parent company of Instagram and Threads, now wants to introduce a system where other users can review potentially misleading messages.