Deutsche Welle Science Unscripted

The end of social media fact checking?

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Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X — across platforms, fact checkers are being fired and replaced with... well, promises that regular people can do the job instead. They can't.
9 Jan English Germany Science · Technology

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