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