Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called Meta’s move to scrap fact-checking on its social media platforms “very dangerous”.

Meta announced this week that it would dump fact-checkers in the US. While some experts say there could be broader implications, others caution it won't cost us a "golden age of truth" on platforms such as Facebook.

Australia is deeply concerned by Meta's decision to scrap US fact-check operations on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a senior government minister said Thursday. AFP currently works in 26 languages with Facebook's fact-checking programme in which Facebook pays to use fact checks from around 80 organisations globally on the platform as well as on WhatsApp and Instagram.

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Australia's government is deeply concerned by Meta's decision to scrap United States fact-check operations on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a senior minister said on Thursday. The government — which has been at the forefront of efforts to rein in social media giants — was worried about a surge of false information spreading online,

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Meta's decision to end its third-party fact checks is worrying given the explosion of misinformation and disinformation, the treasurer says.