Mark Zuckerberg set the internet abuzz this week when the Meta CEO announced that the tech giant would no longer conduct independent fact-checking. The program, implemented in 2016, will be replaced ...

Over the past month and a half, Alexios Mantzarlis and Daniel Funke tracked fact-checkers’ analytics to see how the recent Facebook algorithm change affected them. The topline finding is that, while ...

Facebook’s pivot to baby pictures has yet to cause real damage to the reach of fact-checking pages. On Jan. 11, the social network announced it would increase the visibility of posts from friends and ...