Fox News27d
Internet roasts NYT headline about fact-checkers ruling Meta criticism of fact checks 'false:' 'Beyond parody'
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 ...
ABC News28d
Facebook, Instagram dump fact-checkers citing election as 'cultural tipping point'
Facebook is "simplifying our policies," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Facebook plans to replace its fact-checkers with "community notes," a move that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would allow the ...
CNN27d
Fact-checkers, targeted by MAGA loyalists, blast Zuckerberg’s assertion their work was ‘biased’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg played right into that assumption on Tuesday when he insulted fact-checkers as “too politically biased” and said they “have destroyed more trust than they’ve ...
businesstech.co.za29d
Checkers taking over Pick n Pay stores across South Africa
Shoprite Checkers is taking over numerous Pick n Pay stores across South Africa. Pick n Pay is closing struggling stores, and Shoprite is rapidly expanding. Over the last year, Pick n Pay has been ...
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.
Politifact26d
Meta breaks up with fact-checkers. Here’s how it affects PolitiFact.
Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta ...
The Citizen20d
Is Checkers Sixty60 eating Spar alive?
Picture: Supplied The Checkers Sixty60 on-demand delivery machine roars on, with sales through this platform growing by 58% in its last financial year. Between 2021 and 2024, the number of ...
The New York Times28d
Meta Says Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Rule That False.
Thompson Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, blamed the company’s fact-checking partners for some of Facebook’s moderation issues, saying in a video that “fact-checkers have been too ...
CBS News27d
Mark Zuckerberg says ending fact-checks will curb censorship. Fact-checkers say he's wrong.
"Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything," Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a nonprofit devoted to media literacy, said in a statement.
Independent Online24d
Customer raises alarm over expired cold meats at Checkers
A concerned customer has documented the sale of expired cold meats at Checkers in Hermanus, raising serious questions about food safety standards. Antoinette Morkel stated she had been complaining ...
Poynter26d
An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later
But you say the program has become “a tool to censor,” and that “fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the U ...
Al Jazeera English25d
Meta, Facebook to drop fact-checkers: What does this mean for social media?
However, third-party fact-checkers do not have the authority to delete content, suspend accounts or remove pages from the platform. Only Meta can remove content from its platforms that violates ...