Ruhle: Meta's fact-checking move has nothing to do with free speech

Yaël Eisenstat, Senior Fellow at Cybersecurity for Democracy — a research project of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at the Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences — commented on Meta’s announcement that it is ending third-party fact-checking on its platform: “It didn’t actually surprise me. This is not new. Mark Zuckerberg has been building towards this for years…that said, it is highly disappointing, and let’s be very clear: they want us to focus on whether fact-checking is good or bad, and whether this is about free speech or not, as opposed to focusing on what they do with that speech, on the systemic problems of the platform itself…”