Back in January, Meta made a bold move — it dropped third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram and replaced it with community notes. The company said this change was about deepening its ...

Digital literacy, fact-checking, and critical thinking are no longer optional skills; they are essential skills for ...

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TikTok recently announced it will launch a user-led fact checking program called Footnotes, similar to the community-led notes on X and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms. Lisa Fazio, professor ...

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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 ...

In July, the London-based fact-checking organization Full Fact used artificial intelligence tools to scan public debate in media and online. They identified an average of 240,437 pieces of content ...

Since Israel started bombing Iran last Friday, and Iran hit back in retaliation, the battlefield has not just stayed on the ground but expanded to include the internet. A huge amount of disinformation ...

AI-powered fact-checking tools can greatly speed up journalists' efforts to analyze all kinds of content, from images and video, to audio recordings and text. “AI has undeniably become an essential ...

Fact-checkers are facing severe challenges and political pressure while doing their "honorable" and "patriotic" work, one director warned. On Wednesday, International Fact-Checking Network Director ...