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Facebook won't be fact-checking Donald Trump now he's announced he's running for president in 2024
Facebook parent Meta emailed staff Tuesday saying a Trump presidential bid makes him a "politician"…
Kate Duffy
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Zuckerberg denied saying he wouldn't fact-check political posts if Trump didn't impose 'heavy-handed regulations,' a new book claims
Peter Thiel told an associate that Zuckerberg, Trump, and Jared Kushner discussed the agreement dur…
Lauren Frias
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Facebook may restrict accounts that repeatedly spread misinformation
Misinformation on social media is a raging issue
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I'm a fact-checker at Snopes, the internet's authority on viral hoaxes. Here's how I tell if news is fake.
My team covers stories like $1 million bounties on Vladimir Putin and "Ukrainian Army Cats." Discer…
Madison Dapcevich
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Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook wants to get 4 million Americans voting in 2020 but doubled down on not fact-checking politicians
Mark Zuckerberg said in a USA Today op-ed Facebook has created a new voter information tool, which …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Facebook CEO criticizes Twitter for fact-checking Trump
San Francisco, May 28 (IANS) Criticising Twitter for flagging tweets by US President Donald Trump, …
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The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media has given up on facts
A new war between Israel and Hamas is making clear how social media platforms no longer care about …
Kali Hays
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Joe Biden is demanding that Facebook fact-check political ads. Facebook says no.
Facebook is facing intensifying attacks from both Democrats and Republicans in the run-up to the 20…
Rob Price
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An anti-vaxxer group is suing Facebook for putting fact-checking labels on anti-vaccine posts
Anti-vaxxers have relied on social media like Facebook to spread false information about vaccines b…
Aaron Holmes
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Facebook failed to put fact-check labels on 60% of the most viral posts containing Georgia election misinformation that its own fact-checkers had debunked, a new report says
Facebook is still failing to take action against viral misinformation "copycats," according to an a…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Republicans used a Senate hearing to criticize tech CEOs for fact-checking Trump's posts before the election
Democrat senators voiced concerns that tech companies would be too willing to bend to Republicans' …
Aaron Holmes
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WhatsApp users can now fact-check forwarded message chains as another way to fight the spread of misinformation
The feature rolled out Monday and displays a magnifying glass icon in the chat that reroutes users …
Katie Canales
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How to fact check fake news on WhatsApp
In 2018, 29 people were killed in India by mobs after fake messages about alleged child-lifting …
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A network of teen fact-checkers is tackling online misinformation ahead of the election — here's what they want you to know about spotting falsified facts
The MediaWise Teen Fact-Checking Network is training Gen Z middle- and high-schoolers to spot and d…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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WhatsApp will now have its own fact-checking bot to curb misinformation around COVID-19
The IFCN's bot connects people with independent fact-checkers in more than 70 countries and also…
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Republican Sen. Mike Lee said fact-checking is a form of censorship
Lee made the comment in a Senate hearing where Republicans said Twitter, Facebook, and Google were …
Kelsey Vlamis
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Twitter slapped yet another Trump tweet about mail-in voting with a 'misleading' label and stopped other users from retweeting it
Twitter will "significantly reduce" visibility of President Donald Trump's tweet and limit likes, r…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Trump signs executive order threatening social-media companies after Twitter fact-checked his tweets
First Amendment experts say Trump has "absolutely no legal authority" to regulate or shut down soci…
Sonam Sheth,Eliza Relman,Ashl…
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Nancy Pelosi slams Mark Zuckerberg for 'pandering' to Trump by attacking Twitter's fact-check of his false claims
"Their business model is to make money at the expense of the truth and the facts," Pelosi said of F…
Eliza Relman
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Mark Zuckerberg told Fox News that Facebook would not fact-check Trump's false claims as Twitter did
Zuckerberg's comments came after Twitter added a fact-check warning to a false claim that President…