Exhibit 1079 ยท Fact-checker statement
Meta Ends Third-Party Fact-Checking Partnership in the U.S.
We would like to note that these labels and the consequences of labels (like reduced distribution or demonetization) were always 100% under the control of Meta and they could have changed or removed them at any time they chose.
A Meta partner's reply to Meta's bias and censorship statements. Says it and the IFCN never received a complaint from Meta about political bias, and that the labels and their consequences were controlled by Meta.
- Source
- Lead Stories
- Date
- January 2025 (responding to Meta's 7 January 2025 announcement)
- Quoted from
- Section 'Censorship?', third paragraph
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://leadstories.com/analysis/2025/01/end-of-meta-partnership.html
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- The page does not show a date in the text read; the 7 January 2025 date comes from the URL path (2025/01) and the Meta announcement it answers.