Social media companies are abandoning years of fact-checking practices as Republicans criticize it as censorship. By Kate Conger Social media companies are increasingly relying on fact-checks written ...

In 2022, after Elon Musk bought what’s now X, the company laid off 80% of its content moderation team and made Community Notes the platform’s main form of fact-checking. Previously a pilot program at ...

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 ...

Social media giant Meta announced Thursday that it’s taking applications for its Community Notes system, which is intended to replace the company’s fact-checkers. In a blog post, the Facebook parent ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will officially end its fact-checking program Monday, a top company official said. “By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be ...

When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he laid off swaths of workers tasked with moderating the platform and embraced an experimental approach: asking users to fact-check one another. Musk has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Meta scraped its longstanding fact-checking programme in favour ...