“If these companies truly care about addressing misinformation at scale, they should include professional fact-checkers in conversations about these trust and safety experiments,” he sai ...

Meta will rely on its users to flag bad posts, weeks after it loosened moderation rules and ended its fact-checking program.

Mr Mantzarlis is also deeply critical of the decision to axe fact checkers. But like many experts, he also makes another point that has perhaps been lost in the firestorm of criticism Meta faces: that ...

It is true that improper payments have been made—including some to dead people—but the claims thrown out by Elon Musk and ...

"Fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US," Mr Zuckerberg said earlier in January. Taking their place ...