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Meta will remove third-party fact-checkers from its Facebook and Instagram social media platforms as it wants to embrace free speech. They intend to replace fact checkers with the accuracy of messages being monitored by user-generated community notes. Meta's current fact-checking program, introduced in 2016, refers to posts that appear false or misleading to independent organizations to assess their credibility.

In a recent video, Meta’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said third-party moderator

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China has long exerted control over Internet content and access by its citizens.  The censorship regime known as the Great Firewall of China has been used to eliminate unwanted content such as criticism of Communist Party leadership.  Since Xi Jinping’s became president in 2013, that regime has been tightening up in many ways. 

China’s right to control its own portion of the Internet has been defended by the government through its promotion of the concept of “cyber sovereignty.”  They e