{"id":999530,"date":"2026-03-27T07:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999530"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:17:59","slug":"meta-watchdog-says-grassroots-fact-checks-risk-harm-to-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/meta-watchdog-says-grassroots-fact-checks-risk-harm-to-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta watchdog says grassroots fact checks risk harm to users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body created by Facebook to review content moderation decisions warned Thursday that user-generated fact-checks could harm people living under repression or conflict if they are introduced worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>Facebook parent Meta announced last year that it would end its use of external fact-checkers in the US. <\/p>\n<p>That scheme had employed third parties including AFP to expose misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The body created by Facebook to review content moderation decisions warned Thursday that user-generated fact-checks could harm people living under repression or conflict if they are introduced worldwide. Facebook parent Meta announced last year that it would end its use of external fact-checkers in the US. That scheme had employed third parties including AFP to expose misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}