Meta ends fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame. - The ...

Democracy in America Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics say politics is to blame. Despite a Pulitzer in 2009 and a "golden age of fact-checking,” independent fact-checkers say that Mark ... Read More

Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics say politics is to blame. - MSN

When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer in 2009, it put fact-checkers on the map. Donald Trump’s MAGA movement gave them plenty of work. Now, Meta’s fact-checking retrenchment threatens to hollow out ... Read More

Has Meta’s Fact-Checking Exit Put Truth at Risk? - Psychology Today

Meta’s decision weakens efforts to check false information. Skepticism about truth can be weaponized. Fact-checking helps stop lies from spreading, but it also shows that we take truth seriously. Read More

In America’s news deserts, Meta’s retreat from fact-checking severs ...

In America’s news deserts, Meta’s retreat from fact-checking severs a last link to fact-based news Meta's policy reversal and increase in political content could mean more misinformation for ... Read More

Meta Says It Will End Its Fact-Checking Program on Social Media Posts

Meta said on Tuesday that it was ending its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps, in a stark sign of how the ... Read More

Here's why Meta ended fact-checking, according to experts

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced plans Tuesday to replace fact-checkers with a user-based system known as "community notes.". Fact-checkers who were put in place in the wake of ... Read More

Meta cites political bias in move to suspend fact-checking ... - KSL News

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the suspension of third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg cited political bias as a reason, introducing a "Community Notes" program for ... Read More

No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the ...

The late New York Sen_ Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”. Read More

Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics says politics is to blame.

FactCheck.org launched in 2003, and Snopes, which launched in 1994 to investigate urban myths, later expanded to political and news content as the demand for fact-checking increased. Read More