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 ...

Despite the concern of its own Safety Council over Meta's decision to replace its longstanding fact-checking program for a controversial user-based content-moderation approach called Community Notes, ...

It was a rough weekend for the video giant. X users hit YouTube with a relentless spree of Community Notes, putting together a streak of posts being flagged. YouTube’s X account faced a surge of ...

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 ...

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.

Participation is plummeting in the community-driven feature that X owner Elon Musk touted as the solution to the social media site’s misinformation problems. Submissions to X’s Community Notes, which ...

Meta will start testing its Community Notes model, with which it's replacing human fact checkers, on Facebook, Instagram and Threads in the US on March 18. Notes won't appear publicly on posts right ...