“The company’s new overhaul will not promise more freedom of expression and less censorship across the Middle East and North African region as Mark Zuckerberg would like to sell. Rather, it will wreak more havoc on online civic spaces in the region that are already strife with state-sponsored disinformation, hate speech, and genocidal rhetoric.”

Rest of World

Global fact-checkers were disappointed, not surprised, Meta ended its program

Groups in Pakistan, Argentina, and Brazil have been diversifying revenue streams and many saw the change coming.