Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Meta will stop working with third-party fact-checking organisations has gone viral in seconds. The move is intended to reverse the company’s content moderation approach that, according to Zuck, has too often resulted in “censorship.”

Sporting a $900,000 watch, the Meta CEO said in the video: "After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth," Zuckerberg said. "But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US"

Predictably, the socials went ablaze and many experts and insiders spoke out.

And speaking of fact-checking, it was about time someone fact-checks Zuck's claims about fact-checkers being horrible,........

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