Tom Norton is Newsweek's Fact Check reporter, based in London. His focus is reporting on misinformation and misleading information in U.S. public life. He has in-depth knowledge of open source ...

Google has told the European Union (EU) it will not comply with its new fact-checking law, according to a new report saying the massive search engine will not incorporate the measures into its ...

Meta Platforms Inc. will continue to use its fact checkers outside of the US “for now” even as the Instagram and Facebook owner does away with the practice at home, the company’s head of ...

On Aug. 4, 2021, Instagram’s fact-checkers removed a post about the drug ivermectin. The post had come from the Cochrane Library, a highly respected international organization that collates and ...

Google has notified the European Union that it won’t integrate work from fact-checking organizations into Search or YouTube, ahead of the bloc’s plans to expand disinformation laws.

through contaminated needles used in blood sugar tests. Why we fact-checked this: Several variations of the chain message are circulating on social media, with one such post receiving 38 reactions ...

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is replacing fact checking on the platform with a feature called Community Notes, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday in rolling out a raft of ...

Credit: Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images After Mark Zuckerberg's big announcement that Meta will no longer fact check, Google is also sending a message to the European Union: The search giant ...

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 ...

That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook’s parent company Meta announced plans to scrap the platform’s fact-checking programme ...

Our oligarchs are getting stranger all the time. Still, Zuckerberg wasn’t entirely wrong. In fact, he was right for the wrong reasons. Content moderation has, largely, been a failure on social ...

The end of fact-checking at Meta is raising fresh concerns its platforms will become a hotbed of disinformation as the network hands over the policing of content to users. The move, coupled with ...