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Opinion | Just the facts? Meta’s new experiment says otherwise

Meta’s crowdsourced approach to fact-checking raises questions about bias, scale and the future of accuracy online

March 14, 2025

New Meta content rules let users call LGBTQ+ people ‘mentally ill.’ Here’s what medical experts say.

Leading medical experts do not consider being gay or transgender to be a mental illness

January 14, 2025

Opinion | With Trump on his way back to the White House, Meta drops its fact-checking program

Mark Zuckerberg can preach all he wants about censorship and free speech, but it’s easy to see through his words. This was done to appease Trump.

January 8, 2025

Does crowdsourced fact-checking work? Experts are skeptical of Meta’s plan

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will adopt a Community Notes model similar to X, where fact-checkers say misinformation often goes unchecked

January 7, 2025

Opinion | Meta will attempt crowdsourced fact-checking. Here’s why it won’t work

X’s Community Notes is not the success that tech leaders want you to believe. And a similar system won’t stop misinformation on Facebook.

January 7, 2025

Opinion | Could social media soon have warning labels?

The US surgeon general wants a warning — similar to those on tobacco products — that points out mental health risks of TikTok, Instagram and others

June 18, 2024

Can social media platform outages impact US elections? Not likely, experts say

Election officials in multiple jurisdictions told PolitiFact the March 5 Meta outages outages did not affect voting.

March 7, 2024

How Meta, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube plan to address 2024 election misinformation

Tech giants have struggled to balance curtailing misinformation with protecting users’ political speech.

July 7, 2023

Could Threads kill Twitter? (Like, for real?)

Here’s what some notable journalists think about Meta’s new social network, which has seen explosive growth since its Wednesday launch.

July 6, 2023

An Instagram post takes a Tom Hanks clip out of context to falsely claim he condones pedophilia

The clip shows Hanks in a 2011 ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ sketch that mocked the reality television series ‘Toddlers & Tiaras.’

January 11, 2023

Opinion | With Instagram banned, Russians are further isolated from the world

It’s believed that Russia has somewhere between 60 to 80 million Instagram users.

March 14, 2022

How 3 local newsrooms grew exponentially on Instagram

This summer, three young journalists went to work in local newsrooms. But they weren’t there…

September 12, 2019

Here are some of U.S. fact-checkers first impressions about flagging false images on Instagram

It’s been two weeks since Facebook announced that its American fact-checking partners would start to…

August 28, 2019

Cristina Tardáguila

Fact-checkers launch Instagram, WhatsApp and Telegram stickers to gently warn about false news

Use some colorful images and GIFs to ask family and friends to check their sources and data

June 5, 2019

Cristina Tardáguila

How a fact-checker went from zero to 84,000 Instagram followers in 8 months

Teyit’s Instagram presence looks like Vox and The Guardian had a baby. It’s beautiful. And…

June 5, 2019

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