ended its fact-checking on Facebook in January 2025. As a result, misinformation has become widespread on Facebook, according to independent news organization ProPublica. Meta, a social networking ...

In July, the London-based fact-checking organization Full Fact used artificial intelligence tools to scan public debate in media and online. They identified an average of 240,437 pieces of content ...

Tech giant Meta's shock announcement to end its U.S. fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday from disinformation researchers who warned it risked opening the floodgates for ...

In a context of widespread disinformation, fact-checking forms the first line of response through its focus on restoring the facts. Fact-checking involves verifying content that has already been ...

has stopped fact-checking by independent organizations, which it had done on Facebook, and has moved to the community note format adopted by X (formerly Twitter). However, when the Spanish ...

In this illustration, a person looks puzzled over whether information displayed on a smartphone screen is true or false. (Mainichi/Illustration by Tsumugi Otani) As Japan braces for the summer House ...