This photo illustration created on January 7, 2025, in Washington, DC, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and a phone displaying the download page for the Facebook app. Drew Angerer, AFP

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17365539629311736553960581.jpeg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">This photo illustration created on January 7, 2025, in Washington, DC, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and a phone displaying the download page for the Facebook app. <em>Drew Angerer, AFP</em></span></span></span></div><p>WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden on Friday condemned tech giant Meta&#x27;s &quot;shameful&quot; decision to end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.</p><p>&quot;I think it&#x27;s really shameful,&quot; Biden told reporters at the White House when asked about the announcement. &quot;Telling the truth matters.&quot;</p><p>Biden added: &quot;You think it doesn&#x27;t matter that they let be printed, or millions of people read, things that are simply not true? I mean, I want to know what that&#x27;s all about.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/1/10/meta-s-fact-check-pivot-to-hit-orgs-in-ph-global-south-worst-experts-1549">Meta’s fact-check pivot to hit orgs in PH, ‘Global South’ worst — experts</a></div><p>&quot;It&#x27;s just completely contrary to everything America&#x27;s about. We want to tell the truth.&quot;</p><p>Earlier, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had refused to comment on the decision.</p><p>Meta founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg triggered alarm on Tuesday when he announced his tech company was ditching fact-checking on its platforms in the United States.</p><p>The tech tycoon said fact-checkers were &quot;too politically biased&quot; and the program had led to &quot;too much censorship.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/1/10/zuckerberg-s-censorship-claim-false-international-fact-checking-network-1711">Zuckerberg&#x27;s censorship claim &#x27;false&#x27;: International Fact-Checking Network</a></div><p>As an alternative, Zuckerberg said Meta&#x27;s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, would use &quot;Community Notes,&quot; similar to the Elon Musk-owned platform X.</p><p>Community Notes is a crowd-sourced moderation tool that X has promoted as the way for users to add context to posts, but researchers have repeatedly questioned its effectiveness in combatting falsehoods.</p><p>Meta&#x27;s decision comes after years of criticism from supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, among others, that conservative voices were being censored or stifled under the guise of fighting misinformation, a claim professional fact-checkers vehemently reject.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/overseas/02/08/23/biden-accuses-social-media-companies-of-exploiting-children">Biden accuses social media companies of exploiting children<br/></a></div><p>AFP currently works in 26 languages with Facebook&#x27;s fact-checking program, including in the United States and the European Union.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sKum2hYNGXY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><br/></div>

<p>US President Joe Biden on Friday condemned tech giant Meta's "shameful" decision to end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.</p>

US President Joe Biden on Friday condemned tech giant Meta's "shameful" decision to end its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.

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Biden slams 'really shameful' Meta decision to end US fact-checking

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