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 ...
New app overlays live fact-checks on YouTube videos, as trust in media hits record lows and nearly 4 in 10 young adults get news from influencers Crickit, a new real-time fact‑checking app for social ...
The era of Meta's fact-checking for content moderation in posts, Reels, status updates, and more is now over as the company recently announced that it officially ended its operations at the start of ...
As of Monday, no new fact-checks will be conducted and no fact-checking contractors will remain on staff, according to Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan. The decision dismantles a major ...
“Online scams, phishing attempts, and fraudulent schemes have grown in both volume and sophistication, creating a new front in the war on falsehoods.” The field of fact-checking is not static; it ...
Back in January, Meta made a bold move — it dropped third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram and replaced it with community notes. The company said this change was about deepening its ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Fact-checking journalism around the world is at a crossroads. Democracies are weakening. Social media platforms are withdrawing their financial support for fact-checking. And the ...
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 ...
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 ...