A network of fact-checkers is set to lose a major source of revenue and may even close shop after Facebook parent company Meta announced it would terminate their contracts and move towards a ...

Zuckerberg says that in the absence of a third-party fact-checking program, users will be able to effectively regulate the platform themselves using a "community notes" system. If you use X ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral has struck a multimillion-euro deal with Agence France ...

Is this true? Newsom wrote on his new website, California Fire Facts, that it was a 'ridiculous lie' to say he cut $100m [File: Marco Bello/Reuters] As wildfires in California caused at least two ...

That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when Facebook’s parent company Meta announced plans to scrap the platform’s fact-checking programme ...

In terms of helping to convince people that information is true and trustworthy, “fact-checking does work”, says Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who ...

Our oligarchs are getting stranger all the time. Still, Zuckerberg wasn’t entirely wrong. In fact, he was right for the wrong reasons. Content moderation has, largely, been a failure on social ...

In his January 14 confirmation hearing, Pete Hegseth, United States President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defence secretary, faced scrutiny over his level of experience and personal conduct.

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

The end of fact-checking at Meta is raising fresh concerns its platforms will become a hotbed of disinformation as the network hands over the policing of content to users. The move, coupled with ...

Below are 14 facts about Pompeii. Pompeii is situated about 14 miles southeast of Naples in the Campania region of southern Italy. The settlement was built on fertile lava terraces at the bottom ...

(Jessica Costescu/ Washington Free Beacon) PANAMA CITY, Fla. (CN) — Attorneys for Zachary Young, a security consultant who sued CNN for defamation, took aim at the network’s reporting and ...