Meta’s new 'fact-free' era should worry us all

Social media was once meant to democratise access to information. Now, it may do the exact opposite.

When in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wanted to “move fast and break things”, no one suspected that a decade later, he’d move fast to break the world’s democracy.

Yet on Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced how Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, would be shedding its fact-checkers for a community-notes function and reco…