Prince Harry and Meghan Markle posted on their website that they are ‘deeply concerned’ by Meta ending its third-party fact-checking censorship and loosening content moderation.
Meta is switching to ‘an X-style Community Notes system where users flag content as false or misleading’.
The Mail Online reported: But the move has been seen by some as an attempt by Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to curry favour with the incoming Donald Trump administration in the US.
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And online safety campaigners are concerned it will allow misinformation to spread more easily and leave children and young people vulnerable to harmful content.
“Now, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have waded into the row with a 638-word statement saying the changes to Meta policies ‘directly undermines free speech’. [They wrote:] ‘Allowing more abuse and normalizing hate speech serves to silence speech and expression, not foster it’.
In a statement on Sussex.com called ‘fact-checking Meta’, they added: ‘In an already confusing and, in many instances, intentionally disruptive information environment, Meta has shown their words and commitments have very little meaning or integrity’.