It was 2016, and the problem of fake news kept Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (then called Facebook), up at night. The young entrepreneur was under pressure from the media and was also constantly questioned by the US legal system. The Cambridge Analytica case, accusations of Russian interference in the elections, and Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race raised serious concerns. For the first time, the question of the platform’s influence on the political landscape was being addressed—US lawmakers demanded that the company “protect democracy.” Eventually, Zuckerberg would appear before the Senate in 2018.
As part of his counteroffensive, the company created the Third Party Fact-Checkers, or Independent Fact-checkers,
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