Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim
Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.
The number of fact-checking sites has declined worldwide, as social media platforms reduce disinformation efforts and false AI content keeps fact-checkers busy
The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off. X: @brookingsfp , @nytimesbusiness , @stuartathompson , @mausellmoli , @nytimesbusiness , @corrie_pikul...
Twitter's Community Notes have become a surprise hit, offering fact-checking through a crowd-sourced consensus and modeling a fairer, more transparent approach
The strength of the platform's Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus — I think I might have let out an audible groan … Tweets: @daveleebbg , @jakuuire , @warrenpearce , @trhloff...
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information
So, it's going to be a big week — or weeks. Alexander Hall / Newsbusters : Mark Levin: Facebook Censored My Page on Eve Before Election; ‘I Will Not Be Intimidated’ David Gilbert / VICE : Current Face...
Facebook updated fact-checking guidelines in August to include ads, but some fact checkers say they learned about the change only from Zuckerberg's testimony
Alex Hern / The Guardian : Tweets: @carnage4life and @alexhern See also Mediagazer Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : This is an interesting point about 3rd party fact checking of political ads ...
After 6 months of fact-checking for Facebook, Full Fact published 96 fact-checks, was paid ~$171k, wants Facebook to share more data with fact-checkers
In December 2016, Facebook enlisted a handful of U.S.-based news organizations (ABC News, Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the AP) …
Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on Politifact and hundreds of other sites
Politifact is the latest and perhaps most high-profile website to have hosted code that secretly hijacks visitors' CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Driven by a boom in cryptocoin value and a lack of prot...