When a hoax about Donald Trump went viral at the funeral of Pope Francis, I went on social media to try to set the record straight. I’m a volunteer for community notes, a program Mark Zuckerberg ...
Most election deepfakes turned out to be duds. Say goodbye to official fact-checking on Meta social media sites. The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on ...
Meta will shutter its fact-checking program across Facebook, Instagram and Threads on Monday, marking a major shift in the company’s content moderation strategy. The announcement follows a January ...
A recent Washington Post headline claimed its tech columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, had shown that “Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods [has] failed to make a dent.” The claim would fail a ...
This article was originally published by the Duke Reporters’ Lab and is republished here with permission. After years of weeding through the ever-growing tangle of misinformation, journalists and ...
In July, the London-based fact-checking organization Full Fact used artificial intelligence tools to scan public debate in media and online. They identified an average of 240,437 pieces of content ...
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly was the ...
In the early 1990s, I was a U.S. Army military intelligence officer for an infantry battalion and the informal motto of our small four-man shop was, “We do the thinking so you don’t have to.” It was a ...
The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. He ...