South Korea wrote a fact-checking code into law. Korean fact-checkers are wary.

In South Korea, anyone who believes an online post is false can now report it. The company that hosts the post must then decide whether the complaint is valid.

That is how an amendment to the Network Act, which took effect July 7, is designed to work. It applies to nine platforms with at least a million daily users, among them Naver, Kakao, Google, Meta and TikTok.

Some of those decisions are proving difficult.

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