Before Shutdown, Meta’s Fact-Checking Program Only Labeled 14 Percent of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian Disinformation Posts
Flaws in process could spill over into coming community notes system — with worse results
Special Report
By Dimitris Dimitriadis, Eva Maitland, and McKenzie Sadeghi
Only 14 percent of posts advancing a sampling of 30 Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation narratives identified by NewsGuard analysts on Meta platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Threads from global users were tagged as false under a fact-checking program that Meta is soon end…