Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called Meta’s move to scrap fact-checking on its social media platforms “very dangerous”.

Meta announced this week that it would dump fact-checkers in the US. While some experts say there could be broader implications, others caution it won't cost us a "golden age of truth" on platforms such as Facebook.

These were some of the main stories: New inflation figures show “substantial and sustained progress”: Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the latest ... fact-checking program is chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s way of “sucking up to Donald Trump”.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Meta’s move to scrap fact ... Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says there were ‘too many mistakes’ with his company’s third-party fact-checking system.

Mark Zuckerberg compared Jim Jordan's investigation of conservative censorship to "what Elon [Musk] did on the Twitter files," acknowledging significant missteps in Meta's content moderation policies and celebrating recent changes as a victory for free speech.

Zuckerberg admitted to our committee that the Biden White House had pressured Facebook to censor Americans. Today is a huge step in the right direction,” Republican Rep.