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 ...
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Meta policy reversal puts question mark on future 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 ...
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?
Meta’s announcement illustrates the struggle professional news verification faces in an era where, often, the loudest voices ...
Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook
The social network has given up on fact-checking. That’s a good thing.
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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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 ...