Nation’s Report Card spurs calls for change as reading and math scores circle the drain
The Nation’s Report Card is sparking calls to action as dismal scores on reading and math show students across the country ...
Vulture19d
There Has Never Been a Sillier Thriller About Math
How much do you remember about prime numbers from math class? That they’re only divisible by one and themselves? Every other number can be broken down into them? They follow a pattern that ...
Wall Street Journal24d
‘Fact Checkers’ Become Rent Seekers
Review and Outlook: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan address the company’s decision to abandon its censorship regime, by walking back most of the platform ...
Reuters4d
Fact Check: Elon Musk X post comparing MAGA to Nazi Germany is fake
A screenshot of an X post purportedly quoting Elon Musk saying, in part, “MAGA is the future, and will, in fact, succeed in all the ways Nazi Germany failed to” is fabricated. The screenshot ...
The Raw Story9d
CNN fact-checker busts Trump's false claim pinning blame on Biden for air crash
Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...
USA Today9d
FAFSA wasn't impacted by Trump administration's federal grant freeze | Fact check
Fact check: No, Trump did not call for taking away child support recipients' tax credits A Jan. 28 White House memo further said programs that give direct benefits to individuals were "explicitly ...
Wall Street Journal26d
Facebook, ‘Fact Checking’ and Free Speech
Review and Outlook: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan address the company’s decision to abandon its censorship regime, by walking back most of the platform ...
Mashable24d
Google: We're not participating in European fact-checking rules for Search or YouTube
Credit: Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images After Mark Zuckerberg's big announcement that Meta will no longer fact check, Google is also sending a message to the European Union: The search giant ...
Scientific American26d
Does Fact-Checking Work? Here’s What the Science Says
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 ...
The Motley Fool25d
Meta Platforms Is Ending Its Fact-Checking Program. That Could Be Risky for the Stock
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 ...
The New York Times27d
Meta’s Decision to End Fact-Checking Could Have Disastrous Consequences
Its fact-checkers, Zuckerberg claimed ... social media and the ease with which it can proliferate have helped fuel division and violence in the United States and abroad. The company’s ...
Yahoo19d
FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims Trump made at inaugural events
President Donald Trump speaks from Emancipation Hall as House Speaker Mike Johnson, from left, his wife Kelly Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and his wife Jennifer Scalise ...