Exhibit 1083 · Industry survey report
State of the Fact-Checkers Report 2025
The Meta third-party fact-checking program fell to 34.3%, down from 45.5% in 2024, a decline that reflects the program’s uncertain future, following the phaseout in the United States last year.
Survey of IFCN signatories: 141 organizations in 71 countries responded (77.5% of fact-checking outlets in the network); 137 answered the revenue question. Grants averaged 46.2% of revenue in 2025; the Meta program averaged 34.3%, down from 45.5% in 2024. Among 85 organizations in the Meta program, 37.7% said Meta supplied more than half their revenue. Self-reported, estimates acceptable.
- Source
- International Fact-Checking Network, Poynter Institute
- Date
- March 2026 (survey 3-15 February 2026; data for calendar 2025)
- Quoted from
- p. 4, 'Revenue sources', first paragraph (read from page image)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-State-of-Fact-Checkers-4.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Meta-dependence figures at p. 6 ('Platform partnerships: Meta's fact-checking program'). The IFCN is a unit of the organization that also runs PolitiFact; the survey is by the network about its own signatories.