Facebook announced Thursday it will alert users who have interacted with harmful misinformation related to the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19. The messages will appear in your News Feed ...

The company had reportedly planned to deal with the spread of viral misinformation about the election with tools designed for “at-risk” countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Facebook took ...

Facebook expanded its policy on harmful misinformation in early 2020 as ... But now, amid rapidly shifting pandemic trends and declining stocks for the company in the year so far, Meta is looking ...

Facebook is deploying “break glass” measures to restrict the flow of election misinformation as civil ... increase in “violence and incitement trends,” meaning hashtags and search terms ...

How much misinformation is on Facebook? Several studies have found that the amount of misinformation on Facebook is low or that the problem has declined over time. This previous work, though ...

Digital Trends reached out to Facebook to find out how it is planning to prevent, rather than spot, fake accounts like these as the election nears. We will update this story when we hear back.

“We also expanded the group of false claims that we remove to keep up with recent trends of misinformation that we are seeing.” Five days after that, an email from a Facebook official to a ...

HOUSE REPUBLICANS TELL FACEBOOK TO PRESERVE ANY FBI COMMUNICATIONS ... of false claims that we remove to keep up with recent trends of misinformation that we are seeing." Schmitt continued ...

Misinformation especially flourishes during elections. In past elections, ProPublica and its partners found: Numerous Facebook accounts sharing “outright lies” about voting by mail.

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 ...