Zuckerberg's Funky Romanian Consent Factory

Mark Zuckerberg publicly ended his 'politically biased' fact-checking program five months ago. So why is Romania's consent factory working overtime?

In January 2025, Mark Zuckerberg publicly admitted what critics of the fact-checking industry had long argued: “The fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created”. Declaring the end of the program, he announced a shift toward a new system: “Over the next couple of months, we’re gonna phase in a mo…