As if there weren’t enough warning bells ringing just weeks into Donald Trump’s second administration, the Pentagon is now ...

Earlier this month, Meta, the parent company of four of the world’s top 10 social media platforms, including Facebook, announced it would end its third-party fact-checking programme in the US.

A social media giant's decision to end fact checking on its platforms is a source of concern for two New Brunswick university professors. Meta announced recently that fact checking would come ...

Are people checking out of mainstream media? After a year of Americans seemingly being transfixed by politics, early signs suggest they're exhausted and tuning out of the news. A big question in ...

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It is said that a lie can fly halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on. That trek to challenge online falsehoods and misinformation got a little harder this week, when ...

Legacy media outlets have been reeling for years due to their “ideology über alles” brand of reporting the news, with many companies laying off large swaths of their newsrooms. CNN finished ...

That was the fairly straightforward question my husband typed into Google while the movie played in the background over our Thanksgiving break. The answer from Google’s AI overview: “Marlon ...

In the era of instant communication, social media has become a dominant source of information. But, the flipside of the coin is that the ease with which content can spread has also made platforms a ...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have accused Meta of normalising hate speech over a change in its fact-checking policy that came days after Meghan rejoined social media. The Sussexes, speaking ...

Facebook, Instagram and Threads, Meta’s social media triumvirate, will eliminate fact-checking services, planning instead to rely on the Facebook community to police itself. “We’re going to ...

But how can we tell if media bias really exists, and the extent to which it exists? Chicago Booth’s Emir Kamenica and his coauthors created a scoring rule to evaluate how the unexpectedness of a given ...