Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories
Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based ...
Meta oversight co-chair says the company looks like it’s ‘buckling to political pressure’ by ending fact-checking program
The company’s oversight co-chair said he would have liked to have seen changes made during “less contentious and partisan ...
Meta to end fact-checking, replacing it with community-driven system akin to Elon Musk's X
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a ...
Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame.
When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer in 2009, it put fact-checkers on the map. Donald Trump’s MAGA movement gave them plenty of ...
Biden Calls Meta’s Ending of Fact-Checking Program ‘Shameful’
President Biden criticized Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, on Friday for deciding to abandon its fact-checking ...
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Meta backs away from fact-checking in the U.S.
For years, Meta tried to curb the spread of false information and hate speech on Facebook and Instagram. Here’s CEO Mark ...
Biden: Zuckerberg’s decision to end Meta fact-checking is ‘really shameful’
Outgoing President Biden weighed in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end the fact-checking programs on Meta’s platforms, ...
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India’s Fact-Checkers React to Meta’s Policy Change
When Mark Zuckerberg suddenly abandoned his company’s third-party fact-checking program, I checked in with my old ...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are “Deeply Concerned” About Meta's Fact-Checking Decision
Allowing more abuse and normalizing hate speech serves to silence speech and expression, not foster it,” the Sussexes wrote.
Could Meta ending fact-checking lead to rise in health misinformation?
Meta announced this week it was ending third-party fact-checking and moving towards community notes. Some experts fear it ...
No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?
The late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not ...
Biden calls Meta's decision to end fact-checking 'really shameful'
President Joe Biden slammed Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program, calling the announcement from Mark Zuckerberg ...