The Hill4d
Social media without fact-checking will destabilize the Global South
Social media fills an information vacuum left when no credible, fact-checked sources of journalism are available. Social media is no longer simply a tool for individuals to communicate.
Al Jazeera English28d
Social media giant Meta scraps fact-checking for ‘community notes’
The social media giant Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, has announced the end of its third-party fact-checking programme in the United States, saying that it will encourage “more speech ...
Fox News26d
Liberal media commentators rage after Meta ends fact-checking program: 'Incredibly dangerous'
Liberal media commentators grumbled on social media after Meta announced it would be ending its fact-checking program as part of the sweeping changes it was making to "restore free expression" on ...
Fox News26d
Internet roasts NYT headline about fact-checkers ruling Meta criticism of fact checks 'false:' 'Beyond parody'
But its former third-party fact-check partners objected to the allegations of bias and censorship in their work. PolitiFact's Aaron Sharockman blasted the decision in a social media post ...
Psychology Today23d
10 Questions for Fact-Checking Social Media and the News
With social media no longer providing fact-checking and content moderation, everyone needs to learn how to spot false information on their own and avoid repeating it. While most major media ...
Fortune20d
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle call for Meta to reverse its decision on fact-checking, which they say was fueled by ‘ego or profit’
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Nikkei Asia3d
Meta's end of fact-checking risks social mayhem across Asia, experts warn
BANGKOK/MANILA/MUMBAI -- U.S. President Donald Trump's push for unfettered free speech on social media and Meta's response to it are sparking concerns of serious safety risks -- even threats to ...
Morningstar3d
Tetragon Financial Group Limited December 2024 Monthly Factsheet
Tetragon is a Guernsey closed-ended investment company. Its non-voting shares are listed on Euronext in Amsterdam, a regulated market of Euronext Amsterdam N.V., and also traded on the Specialist ...
Washington Examiner20d
With the fact-checking freak-out, corporate media reach a new low
Maybe she was referencing the fact-checking community’s yearslong assertion that COVID-19 could have come from anywhere besides a lab leak in Wuhan, China? Corporate media’s goose is cooked.
CBS News27d
Keller: What does the end of Meta's fact-checking mean for social media?
Online foreign meddling in Donald Trump's 2016 victory ushered in the era of fact-checking on social media. And now Trump's return to office apparently has ushered it out, with other social media ...
Scientific American20d
Does Fact-Checking Work? Here’s What the Science Says
That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook’s parent company Meta announced plans to scrap the platform’s fact-checking programme ...
Al Jazeera English25d
Meta, Facebook to drop fact-checkers: What does this mean for social media?
In a video posted to social media platforms, Zuckerberg explained that Meta plans to scrap fact-checking in favour of a new system of community notes which users can use to identify posts of ...