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Statement from the International Fact-Checking Network on Meta’s expansion of Community Notes to Latin America

Poynter · The International Fact-Checking Network · last updated

Anyone who cares about finding reliable, accurate information online should be deeply concerned about Meta’s announcement that it is testing its community notes program in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries.

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