This is a bad moment for fact-checking. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which targets social media ...

Whether from the White House or a neighbor in your Facebook community group, a request to remove a Facebook post can prompt accusations of censorship or misinformation, or even become a meme. But does ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: So are you aware that there's this trend at the new year where ...

Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “societal and political pressure to moderate content”, social media users have questioned the value of ...

Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...

Meta has published the first of its quarterly integrity reports since Mark Zuckerberg walked back the company's hate speech policies and changed its approach to content moderation earlier this year.

Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails that it had put in place over several years, in ...

Anyone who spends time on social media knows that it’s hard to avoid abusive misinformation, abusive language and offensive content. Platforms like Facebook and YouTube have content moderation systems ...

Social media platforms have historically run their content moderation much like a parent running a house full of teenagers: If you live under my roof, you follow my rules. But as social media has ...