Meta announced this week it was ending third-party fact-checking and moving towards community notes. Some experts fear it could lead to a rise in health misinformation.

Numerous studies have shown that fact checking has helped reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation online.

The real-world consequences of climate misinformation are multifold — and they’re about to get worse. That is the dark prediction experts are making following Meta’s announcement that the tech giant will no longer use fact-checkers to moderate content on its platforms,