Progressive candidates are winning primaries with help from new left-wing media. These platforms allow candidates to build national profile...

A new study published today in Science Advances offers the most rigorous answers yet. It comes from a collaboration between Meta and academ...

In a letter submitted in response to subpoenas from the House Judiciary Committee, attorneys for Alphabet said the decision to bring back b...

YouTube has updated its content moderation policies, now permitting videos that might technically violate guidelines if they are deemed to ...

Meta invested billions and hired thousands of content moderators globally over the years to police sensitive content, but in January it scr...

Meta plans to replace its professional fact-checking with a user-driven model called Community Notes, following a similar approach by X. Wh...

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook will roll back a number of its censorship policies to become a free speech platform. The Meta C...

Meta says that most of the cover influence operations it has disrupted in recent years were carried out by actors from Russia, Iran and Chi...

Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs said that the attempt to spread propaganda or false content in Facebook and Instagram largel...

The EU on Wednesday told digital platform X to explain a cut to content moderation resources, amid concerns over disinformation ahead of Eu...

In the days following a Jan. 9 speech by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen broadcast live on Facebook, in which he threatened opposition mem...

TikTok, the social media video-sharing platform, has faced criticism for failing to remove harmful content during Malaysia's 2022 General E...

Voters in both nations have already faced a torrent of misleading claims about candidates, issues and voting. That torrent could become a d...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that Twitter will have its own content moderation council to make important moderation decisions on th...

Platform has been on a clean-up spree since February to curb fake news, hate speech, spam, misinformation.

ShareChat, a vernacular social network that supports 14 Indian languages, has about 45 million monthly active users.

Experts are sceptical about the extent to which AI tools could be effective in curbing fake news, given that Facebook’s AI engine is primar...