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Meta policy reversal puts question mark on furure of fact-checking
Media outlets around the world have been left scratching their heads over the future of their fact-checking operations after ...
Could Meta ending fact-checking lead to rise in health misinformation?
Meta -- the company that operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp --announced on Tuesday it was ending third-party ...
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 ...
Here’s the truth: Meta ending fact-checking is a win against censorship
When fact-checkers turn into censors, a power shift had to happen. If you want to know who wields power in a society, there’s ...
71 organizations and counting have signed a letter warning Mark Zuckerberg about ending fact-checking on Meta in the US
The International Fact-Checking Network proposed crowdsourcing in conjunction with professionals, a "new model." ...
No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably ...
Brazil's Lula calls Meta fact-checking changes 'extremely serious'
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that social media company Meta's decision to scrap its ...
Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook
The social network has given up on fact-checking. That’s a good thing.
Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking
Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S.
Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta over lack of fact-checking is ‘virtue signaling’
I'm counting on these changes actually making our platforms better," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media ...
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Meta breaks up with fact-checkers. Here’s how it affects PolitiFact.
Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta described is ...
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Meta to change its fact-checking policy
In other news: A look at the app monitoring wildfires in the western U.S. Looking ahead: How should the press cover a second ...