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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Facebook gets out of the fact-checking business as the House of Representatives passes its first bill of the year, the Lake and Riley Act to crack down on illegal immigration, with 48 Democrats voting yes.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Manet Uquay-Brua, and columnist Bill

McGurn. For years now, Facebook has paid a crew of third-party fact-checkers at organizations

like Politifact and Reuters fact-check

to put ratings on content, which might end up labeled as false or restricted in some way from going

viral. On Tuesday, though, the CEO of Meta, the Facebook parent company, Mark Zuckerberg,

said in an online video that this program would soon be ending.

He said it's time to get back to our roots around free expression.

Here's a little bit more from Mark Zuckerberg.

We're going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X,

starting in the U.S.

After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation

was a threat to democracy.

We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth.

But the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than

they've created, especially in the U.S.

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