Tech giant Meta’s shock announcement to end its US fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday from disinformation researchers who warned it risked opening the floodgates for ...
Meta employees took to their internal forum Tuesday, criticizing the company’s decision to end third-party fact-checking on its services two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Still, the fact-checking community’s losses so far have been incremental. The number of active fact-checkers around the globe by mid-2026 was 437, the Reporters’ Lab found — only 27 below its all-time ...