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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In terms of helping to convince people that information is true and trustworthy, “fact-checking does work”, says Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who ...
The end of fact-checking at Meta is raising fresh concerns its platforms will become a hotbed of disinformation as the network hands over the policing of content to users. The move, coupled with ...
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have accused Meta of normalising hate speech over a change in its fact-checking policy that came days after Meghan rejoined social media. The Sussexes, speaking ...
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 ...
The outgoing POTUS took to the bully pulpit Friday while the CEO of Meta went on Joe Rogan today with different takes on facts and the truth. “Telling the truth matters,” Joe Biden said today ...
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 ...
The fact-checking group that has worked with Meta for years wrote Mark Zuckerberg an open letter on Thursday, warning him about the company's move toward crowdsourced moderation in the US.