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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A network of fact-checkers is set to lose a major source of revenue and may even close shop after Facebook parent company Meta announced it would terminate their contracts and move towards a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Meta will remove fact-checking on all of its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. Instead, the platforms will rely on users to flag misinformation.