Meta’s planned shift away from third-party fact-checking on Facebook in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.

Meta will start testing "Community Notes" in the U.S. from March 18 using technology developed by Elon Musk-owned X, the Facebook parent said on Thursday, two months after scrapping its fact ...

How Meta's new community notes program might work as fact-checking ends for Facebook, Instagram Mark Zuckerberg set the internet abuzz this week when the Meta CEO announced that the tech giant ...

The ten fact-checking organizations will continue to receive payments until August, and those who haven’t signed 2025 contracts could get severance, Business Insider reports. Meta told members ...

Meta ends its fact-checking program, replacing it with Community Notes Making users the arbiters of truth in Facebook and Instagram By Rob Thubron April 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM 13 comments ...

The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.

International Fact-Checking Network Director Angie Drobnic Holan defended the profession as crucial for democracy and fighting disinformation worldwide.