On Wednesday 8 January, the European Commission took note of the Meta group’s decision to reverse its internal policy of combating disinformation in the United States by replacing the ‘fact checkers’ service with the collaborative ‘community notes’ function.
Working with ‘fact checkers’ can be considered as “an effective way to counter systemic risks stemming from very large platforms and linked to disinformation and electoral processes”, but “we are not saying what...