A contentious presidential election, two devastating hurricanes, the Baltimore bridge collapse: It was a busy news year, and where news goes, misinformation follows. Sometimes it even precedes it ...

Climate misinformation is all over social media, and it's going to get worse Meta’s end to fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram opens the floodgates for misinformation and disinformation ...

Adams runs the organization's online misinformation newsletter RumorGuard, which collates viral fact-checks and critical literacy tips. "Protests generally only happen around events that are ...

YouTube and X were the most prevalent sources (54.54% each) of nutritional misinformation related to different pathologies, followed by Instagram (27.27%) and Facebook (11.75%). Significance ...

A contentious presidential election, two devastating hurricanes, the Baltimore bridge collapse: It was a busy news year, and where news goes, misinformation follows. Sometimes it even precedes it ...

“We applaud Facebook for implementing the more stringent news feed algorithm,” senior author Przemek Grabowicz said in a statement. The implementation of the new algorithm cut user views of ...

Facebook and misinformation. Meta’s checkered history with combating misinformation underscores the challenges ahead. In 2016, the company launched a fact-checking program amid widespread ...

Facebook parent company Meta’s ad library shows that the pages behind the ads have paid the company more than $1 million to run them. They racked up a bill of more than $350,000 for ads run in ...

Social media platforms’ suspensions of accounts may not be rooted in political biases, but rather certain political groups’ tendency to share misinformation, according to a new study. The ...

Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high ...