"This really matters' A Facebook factchecker explains their work

The Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced on Tuesday that his company, Meta, would be scrapping factcheckers in the US, accusing them of making biased decisions and saying he wanted to enable greater free speech.

I have been a factchecker at Full Fact in London for a year, investigating suspicious content on Facebook, X and in newspapers. Our bread and butter includes a lot of video disinformation about wars in the Middle East and Ukraine and Al-generated fake video clips of politicians, which are getting harder to disprove. Colleagues work on Covid disinformation, cancer cure hoaxes and there's a lot of climate stuff as we're seeing more hurricanes and wildfires.

As soon as we log on at 9am, we're assigned something to look at. Our access to Meta's systems shows us which posts are most likely to be false. Sometimes there are 10 or 15 different things that seem harmful and it can feel overwhelming. But we can't check everything.