Meta funded a vibrant anti-disinfo ecosystem. Now they’ll likely kill it.

A critical survey on EU media funding, Spotify launches an actual revenue-sharing program for Creators, news publishers of late capitalism and 23 active calls.

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This week on the Media Finance Monitor:

• Meta funded a vibrant anti-disinfo ecosystem. Now they’ll likely kill it.

• Have you ever received funding from the European Commission? Or have you never even tried? Tell us all about it!

• Spotify launches a real revenue-sharing program for Creators

• News publishers of late capitalism

• 23 active calls (6 new)

Meta funded a vibrant anti-disinfo ecosystem. Now they’ll likely kill it.

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg (zuck, the zuck, The Great Eye—I kid you not) announced in a five-minute video on Tuesday that Meta is pulling the plug on fact-checker support in the U.S. The move is widely seen as another Trumpward tilt by the company, which recently swapped out its liberal-leaning public policy VP, Nick Clegg, for Republican Joel Kaplan and added UFC CEO and Trump confidant Dana White to its board. Zuckerberg also…