Many parents were already worried about their kids being exposed to false information and other harmful content on social media before Meta’s surprise decision to drop its fact-checkers.

When I studied for school, I used to spend hours re-reading the given material. I thought that the more information I read, ...

With children heading back to school at the height of summer, a recent study finds too many playgrounds need better tree ...

Michelle Riedlinger has received funding from Meta’s 2022 Foundational Integrity Research granting scheme. Silvia Montaña-Niño has received funding from Meta’s 2022 Foundational Integrity ...

Kennedy, Jr. said: "All of my kids are vaccinated." Rating: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump's 2025 pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, has long faced scrutiny ...

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 ...

Meta's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he would scrap a longstanding fact-checking program and replace it with X-style community notes from users. The first time Lead Stories fact-checker ...

Meta's US fact-checking partnerships will officially end in March, and payments to partners will continue through August, Business Insider has learned. Details of an exchange between Meta and ...

The International Fact-Checking Network has convened an emergency meeting of its members following Meta's announcement on Tuesday that it will end its third-party fact-checking partnerships in the ...

The tech giant — which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads — announced Tuesday that in the United States, it will switch to a crowdsourced fact-checking model similar to X’s Community Notes ...

This roundup of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. – Has Britain built a runway ...