This article was originally published by the Duke Reporters’ Lab and is republished here with permission. After years of weeding through the ever-growing tangle of misinformation, journalists and ...

When a hoax about Donald Trump went viral at the funeral of Pope Francis, I went on social media to try to set the record straight. I’m a volunteer for community notes, a program Mark Zuckerberg ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Fact-checking journalism around the world is at a crossroads. Democracies are weakening. Social media platforms are withdrawing their financial support for fact-checking. And the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 2025, Facebook users shared a rumor claiming Meta signed into policy a "new Facebook rule" allowing the company the ...

Donald Trump, accompanied by his wife Melania Trump, is applauded by his daughter Ivanka Trump, right, as he's introduced before his announcement in June 2015 that he would run for president in the ...

Washington Post columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler argued that Meta's community notes fact-checking system for posts made on Facebook, Instagram and Threads is "nowhere near up to the task" of keeping ...