Meta announces cutting fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram

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In a video posted on Meta platforms, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced ditching third-party fact-checking and replacing it with a 'community notes' system similar to that of Elon Musk's X.The Pentagon has added Tencent, along with several other Chinese companies, to its blacklist of firms with suspected ties to the Chinese military. And Sudan's military-led government has lifted a 10-month-long block on crude oil exports from its landlocked neighbour, South Sudan, after the two countries reached new security arrangements.

7 Jan 10AM English United Kingdom Business

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