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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was moving from employing professional fact-checkers to letting its users fact-check each other. If you’ve heard that it’s going perfectly, then you, too, have been exposed to misinformation.

Guest: Geoffrey Fowler, tech columnist with the Washington Post

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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Ethan Oberman, and Patrick Fort.



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Last April, the Vatican held the funeral of Pope Francis.

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The funeral was huge, a very solemn and important event for Catholics across the world,

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but a scuttle online started to overtake

1:29.5

the ceremony. I saw a meme going around in the liberal social media spheres that Donald Trump was

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so terrible that he fell asleep during Pope Francis's funeral. And they were like, and he called

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Joe Biden's Sleepy Joe, and look at him here. And they claimed to have evidence of it.

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That's Jeffrey Fowler, a tech columnist with the Washington Post. Just weeks before Jeffrey

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saw those posts about Trump, he had actually signed up to be a volunteer community notes poster

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