During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The company dropped the slogan in 2014. But it seems that Zuckerberg – who kicked off the year by announcing an end to fact-checking on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram – still doesn’t care what he ...

In what was a tumultuous week of news for social media networks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Meta will be shutting down its independent fact-checking program in order to cut down o ...

Given the size and global reach of their platforms, this is not just a blow against systematic and professional fact-checking online; it is a blow against the very idea of fact-checking—and that ...

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is replacing fact checking on the platform with a ... a raft of changes that he said would “prioritiz[e] speech” and restore “free expression” on ...

Last week, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) said that it is shutting down the third-party fact-checking programs on its social media platforms. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg says that those ...

Google will not be adding fact checks to its search results or YouTube videos in Europe — a decision that flouts an EU law that requires tech giants to use fact checkers. Kent Walker, Google’s ...

Zuckerberg says that in the absence of a third-party fact-checking program, users will be able to effectively regulate the platform themselves using a "community notes" system. If you use X ...

Google rejects EU's fact-checking requirements for search and YouTube, defying new disinformation rules. Google refuses to implement EU-mandated fact-checking on its platforms. Google claims its ...

Their response? Google won’t be adding the checks. Google has never used fact-checking in its content moderation, despite the massive cultural dominance of its search results and YouTube videos ...