Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China could drive up prices of cars, electronics, fuel, food and more
Trump signed executive orders to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China under the International Emergency Economic Powers ...
Fox News18d
Meta fact-checkers set to lose revenue, may shut down after Zuckerberg’s pivot: ‘We don’t have much time left’
A network of fact-checkers is set to lose a major source of revenue and may even close shop after Facebook parent company Meta announced it would terminate their contracts and move towards a ...
STAT20d
How the FDA’s new nutrition labels could prod the food industry to get healthier
A new government proposal to display nutritional labels on the front of food packaging is aimed at helping Americans make more informed choices about what they eat. An eventual side effect ...
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 ...
New York Magazine20d
What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
Our oligarchs are getting stranger all the time. Still, Zuckerberg wasn’t entirely wrong. In fact, he was right for the wrong reasons. Content moderation has, largely, been a failure on social ...
CBS News20d
Food shoppers could see nutrition facts on the front, as FDA unveils proposed packaging rules
The Food and Drug Administration released on Tuesday its long-awaited proposal to require food manufacturers to put some nutrition facts on the front of packages, in a bid to nudge Americans and ...
dw21d
Fact check: Viral claims on California wildfires
DW’s Team Fact check analyzed the most viral claims. Donald Trump's accusations that California Governor Gavin Newsom is responsible for the alleged shortage of water for battling the wildfires ...
The Hill23d
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, calling it a “really shameful” choice since “telling the ...
Mental Floss24d
11 Fresh Facts About Greenland
In fact, fewer than 60,000 people call this large ... making air and sea the main modes of travel. With an ice sheet second only to Antarctica’s in size, Greenland’s glacial land ice covers ...
The New Yorker24d
What’s a Fact, Anyway?
Networks such as NBC and the BBC have launched units dedicated to fact-checking what other people say—as opposed to checking their own work—and for the first Presidential debate of 2024 the ...
Toronto24d
Norovirus Fact Sheet
People can become infected with the virus in several ways: Direct contact with an ill person (e.g. shaking hands) Touching surfaces or objects contaminated with the virus (e.g. doorknob or stair ...