Meta is removing independent fact checkers for Facebook and Instagram and replacing them with user-generated ‘community notes’ where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. The sweeping ...

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Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S.

The full impact of Meta’s “community management” approach to moderation remains to be seen, but social media creators will ...

When fact-checkers turn into censors, a power shift had to happen. If you want to know who wields power in a society, there’s ...

Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and ...

What Fresh on the heels of Meta-formerly-Facebook issuing a sweeping — and in many ways, both inexplicable and all-around ...

Mark Zuckerberg ended independent fact-checking at the social media giant, opening the way for more misinformation, from letters.

Erika Hilton, a Black trans member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, has asked the U.N. to investigate Mark Zuckerberg’s ...

It wasn’t just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration. The ...

The body's co-chair says moving to community notes could have a big impact on gender rights and minority groups.

Meta is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women — even as it plans to move forward with AI "characters" that ...