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 ...

The story so far: On January 7, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will get rid of fact-checkers and simplify content policies by removing restrictions on topics as it is “out of touch ...

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 ...

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 ...

Full fact check: Viral video shows men helping woman flee California wildfires, not 'looters' The man shown on Threads carrying white bags along Woodbury Road is shown in the news footage walking ...

Mantzarlis is highly critical of the move: “In addition to ending the fact-checking program, Zuckerberg has also announced a more lax approach to content moderation, so Meta will no longer proactively ...

Meta's decision to lift content restrictions and replace its fact-checking program with a system like X's Community Notes is being heralded as a massive "win" for free speech by experts.

In response, Meta created a fact-checking program that helped protect millions of users from hoaxes and conspiracy theories. This week, you announced you’re ending that program in the United ...

The New York Times was skewered Tuesday for a headline about Meta fact-checkers fact-checking their own critics. Meta announced that it would be ending its controversial fact-checking practices ...

Meta announced it's ending third-party fact-checking on its platforms, calling the decision a return to a “fundamental commitment to free expression.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the rules had ...

Less than two weeks before Donald Trump is reinstated as President, Meta is abandoning its fact-checking program in favor of a crowdsourced model that emphasizes “free expression.” The shift ...

Mark Zuckerberg has announced he is scrapping fact-checks on Facebook, claiming the labels intended to warn against fake news have “destroyed more trust than they have created”. Since ...