Meta scrapped factcheckers ‘because systems were too complex’

Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes rival's move

The co-chair of Meta's oversight board said the company's systems had become too complex", as the chief executive of Elon Musk's X welcomed its decision to scrap factcheckers.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social media company's oversight board and the former prime minister of Denmark, has said she and the departed president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, had agreed Meta systems have been too complex", adding that there had been over-enforcement".