Meta said it's moving towards community notes to moderate content. Meta -- the company that operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp --announced on Tuesday it was ending third-party ...

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook is ...

After eight years of working with professional journalists to flag misinformation on its platforms, Meta will turn that task over to users. The tech giant — which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads ...

Less than two weeks before Donald Trump is reinstated as President, Meta is abandoning its fact-checking program in favor of a crowdsourced model that emphasizes “free expression.” The shift marks a ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, users ...

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you ...

Meta's decision to lift content restrictions and replace its fact-checking program with a system like X's Community Notes is being heralded as a massive "win" for free speech by experts. While some ...

President Joe Biden on Friday slammed Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program, calling it “really shameful.” While answering questions from reporters following remarks about the economy, ...

Meta’s surprise decision to scrap its fact-checking partnerships – blindsiding journalists involved in the program and putting some out of work – is part of a much bigger shift in media and politics.