Should Politicians Be Exempt from Fact-Checking?

See, for example, Meta's fact-checking policy (2022).2. For example, Meta states that "Once a fact-checker has rated a piece of content as False, Altered or Partly false, or we detect it as near identical, it will appear lower in Feed on Facebook.We dramatically reduce the distribution of False and Altered posts, and reduce the distribution of Partly false to a lesser extent.On Instagram, this content is filtered out of Explore and is featured less prominently in Feed and Stories.This significantly reduces the number of people who see it" (2022).3. Meta states that "Our approach is grounded in Facebook's fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, especially in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is the most scrutinized speech there is.Just as critically, by limiting political speech, we would leave people less informed about what their elected officials are saying and leave politicians less accountable for their words" (Meta, n.d.).