Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, users spread a false claim on Facebook that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was paying a bounty for reports of undocumented people. “BREAKING — ...

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook is ending its fact-checking program. Although this couldn’t be confirmed, it’s believed the Facebook CEO – who suffers from debilitating flatulence – made ...

It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook ...

The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. He ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook has done “too much censorship” as he revealed the social network is scrapping fact-checking and restrictions on free speech as President-elect Donald Trump ...

Most election deepfakes turned out to be duds. Say goodbye to official fact-checking on Meta social media sites. The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, users ...

On January 7, Mark Zuckebrerg made a not-so-stunning announcement. The Meta CEO said that his company is ending its third-party fact-checking program, declaring that “experts, like everyone else, have ...

A month ago, Meta said it was ending its third-party fact-checking program, and said that it would rely on users to flag misinformation. Today, the company has announced Community Notes, which takes a ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he decided to end Facebook and Instagram’s third-party fact-checking operation because it too closely resembled George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984.” Zuckerberg made ...

Yesterday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would end fact-checking on its platform. In the process, a ...