Could Meta ending fact-checking lead to rise in health misinformation?
Meta -- the company that operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp --announced on Tuesday it was ending third-party ...
How bad IS disinfo? Meta forces a question.
Political disinformation seemed like a new and serious disease of the social media age when it first hit the public radar ...
The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul
Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and ...
UCA News15m
Filipinos alarmed as social media giant scraps fact-checking
The decision of a tech giant that owns popular social media platforms to end partnership deals with fact-checking groups ...
Meta is highlighting a splintering global approach to online speech
Meta’s overhaul of its content moderation and fact-checking policies in the US is bringing into focus a key geopolitical ...
The News Minute8h
Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation
Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the spread of online lies amon ...
Meta oversight board members say losing fact-checking could undermine public trust
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and novelist Khaled Mansour have warned that disinformation ‘can very much kill’ ...
AFP on MSN1h
'Real-world harm' if Meta ends fact-checks, global network warns
There will be "real-world harm" if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global ...
Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites 'recent elections' as a catalyst
The changes worry advocates for vulnerable groups, who say Meta's decision to scale back content moderation could lead to ...
El País in English23h
Mark Zuckerberg’s excuse for ending fact-checking program is a hoax, say experts: ‘It is a lie that we are censors’
Communication analysts criticize the replacement of professionals by X-style collective collaboration by Facebook and ...
AFP on MSN13h
Australia warns of disinformation storm after Meta drops fact-checkers in US
Australia is deeply concerned by Meta’s decision to scrap US fact-check operations on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a ...
Opinion
Comment: Meta’s rule changes put America first on global soapbox
The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content moderation on the eve of the second Trump ...