Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Meta scraped its longstanding fact-checking programme in favour ...

Next week, Meta will begin one of the company’s most significant overhauls ever for how it fact-checks information on its platforms. On March 18, Meta will start releasing its version of Community ...

In 2022, after Elon Musk bought what’s now X, the company laid off 80% of its content moderation team and made Community Notes the platform’s main form of fact-checking. Previously a pilot program at ...

Elon Musk’s X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out “community notes,” which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or ...

Meta announced in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now accepting sign-ups for its Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The announcement follows Meta news last month that it’s ...

Last week, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced a major change in how content in the Meta stable (including Facebook, Instagram and Threads) will be fact-checked. Bottom line: It won’t be.

TikTok is the latest social media platform to roll out a crowdsourced fact-checking experiment. Its version is called Footnotes. The social platform says the new feature won’t replace the partnerships ...

After long touting Community Notes as the best way to combat false information online, X owner Elon Musk now says the system needs a "fix." Musk disagreed with Community Notes regarding a poll that ...

A parliamentary panel has suggested that features like “community notes” on X could be treated as a publishing activity, according to committee chairperson and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker ...