Meta on Tuesday said it was canceling its third-party fact checking program, signaling a major shift in how the parent company of Facebook and Instagram patrols content on its platforms. “We’re going ...

Mark Zuckerberg's announcement last week that he will end third-party fact checking at Facebook and Instagram inspired this essay from a distraught fact-checker, Karl Barnstine. Barnstine (he/they) is ...

Facebook parent company Meta revealed sweeping changes on Tuesday that will alter the way the social media giant moderates content and combats the spread of misinformation on its platforms. The policy ...

Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. Every once in a while, the “fact-checkers” at PolitiFact publish reader comments ...

(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. will end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the US, letting users comment on posts’ accuracy with a community notes system it said will ...

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you ...

For the past 15 years, the fact-checkers at PolitiFact have sorted through hundreds of statements by politicians to name the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Fact-checking is an innovative form of journalism that has been forced to develop amid a “deep change in the conditions of practicing journalism,” the head of a foundation that ...

On Tuesday, the CEO of a social network born to rate the hotness of college students announced he was taking it back to its roots by “restoring free expression.” But his marquee announcement, the one ...

Milijana Rogač was walking to work in late February when she got a push notification from a local tabloid reporting that police were raiding the offices of several Serbian civil society organizations.

Fact-checkers may come across traumatic content and graphic imagery during the course of their work, while contending with online attacks and the challenges of maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Austin Kelley, a former New Yorker fact checker, about his novel, "The Fact Checker," about a man's attempt to solve a possible mystery at the farmer's market. A fact ...