Meta dismantles system that identifies viral hoaxes, Platformer reports

Meta has dismantled a system that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach, and has told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinformation, Platformer’s Casey Newton reports, citing sources and an internal document. Last week, Meta announced a series of changes to its content moderation policies and enforcement strategies designed to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration, ending its fact-checking program in the U.S., creating carve-outs in its community standards, and killing its DEI program.