Politifact

Meta breaks up with fact-checkers. Here’s how it affects PolitiFact.

Column by PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders: As I weigh Meta’s decision to break up with American fact-checkers, I keep returning to this: The censorious fact-checking program Meta ...
Associated Press

No more fact-checking for Meta. How will this change media — and the pursuit of truth?

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” the late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan memorably wrote four decades ago. That seems like a simpler time — especially when you ...
Fast Company

Can AI fact-check its own lies?

The most obvious takeaway from the incident is that it was a badly needed wake-up call about what can happen when AI gets too embedded in our information ecosystem. But CEO Melissa Bell resisted the ...
Politifact

100 PolitiFact fact-checks from President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office

Here is a record of 100 fact-checks PolitiFact reporters have written in the Trump administration’s first 100 days. Some of these fact-checks have a Truth-O-Meter rating, which means a group of ...
Nature

Does fact-checking work? What the science says

It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook ...
CNET

Facebook, Instagram Fact-Checking Has Ended: What That Means for You

The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. He ...
CNN

Fact-checkers, targeted by MAGA loyalists, blast Zuckerberg’s assertion their work was ‘biased’

Meta’s surprise decision to scrap its fact-checking partnerships – blindsiding journalists involved in the program and putting some out of work – is part of a much bigger shift in media and politics ...
Cfr.org

Delegitimizing the Messenger: the Assault on Fact-Checkers

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This chilling effect on information research is not an aberration. In a recently ...
The Atlantic

Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook

Yesterday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would end fact-checking on its platform. In the process, a partnership with the network of third parties that has provided review and ...
The White House

Myth vs. Fact: The One Big Beautiful Bill

MYTH: The One Big Beautiful Bill is “just a tax break for billionaires.” FACT: The One Big Beautiful Bill delivers the largest middle- and working-class tax cut in U.S. history. The President’s ...
KCRG on MSN

Fact Check: Cedar Rapids school district could sell land to help with budget

The Cedar Rapids School District is sitting on dozens of acres of land that has some wondering if selling the land could help ...