The State Department canceled meetings with Facebook due to court order
By Dave Van Zandt Due to a recent court ruling that restricts the communication between government officials and social media companies regarding free speech, the…
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Meta threatens to remove US news content if new law passes
Meta has threatened to take down news articles on Facebook in the United States. It opposes a new law that would give news organizations more…
Facebook takes down Russian network impersonating European news outlets
Facebook parent Meta says it has disrupted a large Russian network of fake accounts impersonating European news outlets to push a pro-Kremlin view of the…
Facebook’s New Quality News Section to feature the Questionable Breitbart
Facebook Inc. introduced a separate news section in its flagship app, offering users more control over articles they see and providing money to the publishers whose…
Full Fact has been fact-checking Facebook posts for six months. Here’s what they think needs to change
By LAURA HAZARD OWEN @laurahazardowen – Nieman Lab In December 2016, Facebook enlisted a handful of U.S.-based news organizations (ABC News, Snopes, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the AP) to help…
Facebook says it shut down Iranian-made fake Republican politicians and U.S. social media accounts
Facebook said Monday it removed 51 accounts, 36 pages, seven groups and three Instagram accounts involved in what it called “coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated…
Facebook bans Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan, other ‘dangerous’ figures
Facebook announced Thursday that it has permanently banned a host of prominent figures it described as “dangerous” from its platform, including right-wing commentator and former Breitbart…
Check Your Fact added as Facebook Fact Checker
On Wednesday, April 17, 2019, it was announced that Check Your Fact will partner with Facebook as a fact checker. According to the Check Your…
Facebook bans white nationalism from platform after pressure from civil rights groups
Facebook is banning white nationalism and white supremacy from its social network following criticism that it had not done enough to eliminate hate speech on…
Snopes drops fact checking arrangement with Facebook
Snopes confirmed that its contract with Facebook ended in December 2018 and it has not been renewed. Snopes had a long-standing partnership with Facebook to decrease…
Facebook rejects ‘false’ claim that half of its accounts are fake
Facebook has as termed “unequivocally false” a report that claims the social networking platform hosts one billion fake accounts, a media report said. According to…
Facebook removes more pages, accounts with Russia links
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it had removed hundreds of Russia-initiated pages, accounts and groups that it judged to be involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior…
Facebook hired a conservative lobbying firm with an ‘in-house fake news shop’ to combat PR crisis
The conservative lobbying firm that Facebook hired in the midst of an October 2017 public relations crisis about Russian disinformation included what one former employee…
Unlike in 2016, there was no spike in misinformation this election cycle
Social media misinformation rose significantly before the 2016 presidential election. Georgejmclittle/shutterstock.com Paul Resnick, University of Michigan A newsy photo of a public figure shows up…
Facebook launches ‘war room’ to combat election manipulation
Republished with permission by Knowhere News Facebook has built a physical “war room” in its California headquarters in an attempt to avoid repeating some of…
Facebook purges hundreds of pages and accounts linked to Russia, Iran
Republished with permission by Knowhere News Facebook identified a new political influence campaign designed to disrupt the midterm elections, taking down 652 fake pages and…
Facebook removes pages of Infowars and Alex Jones after outcry
Facebook has unpublished four pages belonging to conspiracy theorist and far-right radio host Alex Jones for repeatedly violating the company’s standards with inflammatory posts about…
Debunked Fake News Still Being Shared Despite Facebook’s Promises
By Kenneth White At the Global FactChecking Summit in June, Facebook announced they would be delivering data surrounding their new strategies to combat misinformation and…
House Democrats Are Planning to Release 3,000 Facebook Russia-Linked Election Ads
The ads may be released as early as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal, but first Facebook and Democrats must determine what and…
Facebook Releases Internal Acceptable Content Guide
By Kenneth White Facebook today released a 27 page document that provides content moderators enough specificity in judging the permissibility of hate speech, nudity, violence…