IFCN names winners of Meta grants to combat AI-generated misinformation on WhatsApp The initiative builds on efforts to connect people with facts and develop solutions for the global fact-checking community August 15, 2024 The International Fact-Checking Network
Are Google and Meta hiding information about Trump? Here’s what companies say happened Some social media users have accused Google of manipulating search results and Meta’s AI tool of hiding information about his attempted assassination August 6, 2024 Jeff Cercone
‘Frenemies’: The complicated relationship between fact-checkers and tech giants like Meta and TikTok Many fact-checking outlets are financially dependent on the very platforms that they criticize June 28, 2024 Angela Fu
FULL TEXT: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa empowers fact-checkers, warns of inflection point for democracy at GlobalFact 11 Philippine journalist calls tech companies "frenemies" with fact-checkers and urges them to act to stop the spread of misinformation June 27, 2024 Loreben Tuquero
Nobel laureate Maria Ressa tells tech companies: Now is the time to ‘do something’ Philippine journalist calls on sponsors of GlobalFact 11 fact-checking summit to protect democracy, stop spread of misinformation June 26, 2024 Loreben Tuquero
Opinion | Let’s say it plainly: Fact-checking is not censorship Fact-checking adds to the public debate; it doesn’t suppress it April 2, 2024 Angie Drobnic Holan
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 Madison Czopek
Opinion | ‘A moment for the ages’ as Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to families of abuse victims ‘I’m sorry for everything you have all been through. No one should have to go through the things that your families have suffered.’ February 1, 2024 Tom Jones
Why Google and Meta ‘owe’ news publishers Our working paper found that the tech giants owe publishers billions of dollars. Here’s how we arrived at that conclusion and what it means. February 1, 2024 Anya Schiffrin
Opinion | Google and Meta owe US news publishers about $14 billion a year, our research estimates A new working paper calculates the value of news to tech companies and shows publishers how they can assess what they are owed. November 9, 2023 Anya Schiffrin
Opinion | The fog of war envelops social media Hamas and the Israeli government are pioneering ways to shape public opinion about the war through Telegram, X and other social sites. October 18, 2023 Tom Jones
In the wake of Idalia, residents of one Florida town are turning to Facebook for their news In regions where there isn’t a robust news presence, local residents often turn to social media. September 1, 2023 Angela Fu
Opinion | The move that could make Threads a true threat to Twitter It’s hard to say where Threads will ultimately go, but it wasn’t going to go any further without a web version. August 22, 2023 Tom Jones
News publishers declare global principles for bargaining with Big Tech Journalists and scholars gathered for two days in South Africa to hammer out details of fair compensation from Big Tech July 26, 2023 Anya Schiffrin
Opinion | Threads is live. Now what happens? Threads has a chance to work because users want it to work, mostly because they are tired of all the drama that comes with Elon Musk and Twitter. July 7, 2023 Tom Jones
