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 ...

There’s an old saying in journalism: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” The adage underscores a fundamental aspect of responsible news reporting: the need to verify and fact-check all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rhea Wessel is the founder of The Institute for Thought Leadership. Like it or not, businesses and thought leaders operate in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) Africa has organised a two-day capacity-building workshop for journalists in Katsina State, aimed at strengthening media professionalism and promoting ...