It's this type of case experts point to as fears rise about the scaling back of fact-checking of social media content. "Unchecked hate speech doesn't just stay online — it spills into the real ...

Proud moment for South Asia." The same was shared on Facebook and Instagram as well. India Today Fact Check found that the video is more than two years old, from October 2022, when Ishaq Dar was the ...

If you were forced to pare down your kitchen supplies to include only the bare minimum, sheet pans would make the cut. In my case, many sheet pans: I have nearly ten and pull one out almost every ...

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 ...

Based on a just-released series of reports by EFSA, the main neonicotinoid insecticides––clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid––are shown to present both acute and chronic risks to the survival ...

Is this true? Newsom wrote on his new website, California Fire Facts, that it was a 'ridiculous lie' to say he cut $100m [File: Marco Bello/Reuters] As wildfires in California caused at least two ...

In terms of helping to convince people that information is true and trustworthy, “fact-checking does work”, says Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

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 ...

Its fact-checkers, Zuckerberg claimed, “have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created.” Henceforth the company will be removing fewer posts ...

DW’s Team Fact check analyzed the most viral claims. Donald Trump's accusations that California Governor Gavin Newsom is responsible for the alleged shortage of water for battling the wildfires ...