Meta cut payments to its approved fact-checking partners in India by roughly one-third to one-half for the next six-month period.

Fact-checking vendors that rely on Meta revenue now face an immediate budget shortfall, forcing staffing and coverage reductions or shutdown risk within the next two quarters. Lower paid capacity increases the likelihood that misinformation review queues lengthen and fewer posts are escalated for third-party verification, changing the operational baseline for brand-safety and election-integrity monitoring on Meta platforms in India. Organizations running campaigns or public-facing communications in India should assume higher residual misinformation exposure and plan for additional in-house monitoring and rapid-response workflows during the six-month window.