13 Jan 2025

Meta's scrapping of fact-checking in the US has emboldened disinformers; now the EU is on alert

In a recent Journal.ie article, Dr Eileen Culloty, Deputy Director at the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society, calls the “open disregard for truth and embrace of hateful expression” by Zuckerberg “an escalation, and not a turn”.

Dr Culloty spoke on the issue of miss and di-information at the PRII Conference last year.

This development, among others, at Meta will be watched carefully by all MPRII - read more here.

 

This article is credited to Stephen McDermott, Journalist and Journal.ie.

 

 

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