Meta tells Bloomberg to keep fact checkers outside U.S. ‘for now’

Meta will continue to use its fact checkers outside of the U.S. “for now,” and plans to see how its Community Notes system works in the U.S. before deciding, the company’s head of global business Nicola Mendelsohn in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Francine Lacqua at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Monday. “We’ll see how that goes as we move it out over the year,” Mendelsohn said. “So nothing changing in the rest of the world at the moment, we are still working with those fact checkers around the world.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he decided to pull back on the fact-checking process because complex systems were making “too many mistakes” and unfairly censoring users. President Donald Trump, who was temporarily banned from Facebook after the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot and has called the platform “the enemy of the people,” welcomed the move and said Meta had “come a long way.”