Checking hate content “is not censorship,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said today, days after Meta announced the abolition of fact-checking in the US ahead of Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House.

“Allowing hate speech and malicious content online has specific implications. Checking content is not censorship,” Falker Turk wrote on the X platform, whose owner, and now Trump’s alter ego, Elon Musk, has been spreading the word for years that fact-checking programs constitute “censorship.”