Fortune12d
Mark Zuckerberg wore one of the rarest watches in the world, worth $900,000, while announcing the end of fact-checking at Meta
Mark Zuckerberg wore a highly exclusive watch in a video announcement on Tuesday. © 2024 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights Reserved. Use of this site constitutes ...
MarketWatch18d
Meta goes ‘MAGA’: Facebook adjusts fact-checking approach as Zuckerberg touts ‘free expression’ and cites ‘cultural tipping point’
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is replacing fact checking on the platform with a feature called Community Notes, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday in rolling out a raft of ...
USA Today18d
Meta Platforms is ending its fact-checking program. That could be risky for the stock
Last week, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) said that it is shutting down the third-party fact-checking programs on its social media platforms. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg says that those ...
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 ...
The New York Times21d
Meta’s Decision to End Fact-Checking Could Have Disastrous Consequences
Its fact-checkers, Zuckerberg claimed, “have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created.” Henceforth the company will be removing fewer posts ...
Courthouse News Service21d
CNN’s fact-checking criticized in defamation case
(CN) — Attorneys for Zachary Young, a security consultant who sued CNN for defamation, took aim at the network’s reporting and fact-checking process on Tuesday, highlighting the concerns some editors ...
Mental Floss21d
14 Incredible Facts about Pompeii, the Roman City Frozen in Time
Below are 14 facts about Pompeii. Pompeii is situated about 14 miles southeast of Naples in the Campania region of southern Italy. The settlement was built on fertile lava terraces at the bottom ...
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 ...
ZDNet21d
'How to quit Facebook?' searches spike after Meta's fact-checking ban
Meta's upcoming move to replace its third-party fact checkers with a Community Notes feature isn't sitting well with everyone. Following CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement last week, a host of ...
CNN22d
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 fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder.
PBS22d
Fact-checking misinformation about the Los Angeles wildfires and California water policy
This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact. President-elect Donald Trump and some social media users and pundits blamed Los Angeles’ deadly fires on California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...