Facebook continues its fight against fake news with a new notification warning you when you are about to share old news.
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Facebook announced updates to its "remove, reduce, and inform" strategy, used to manage problematic content across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.
Facebook has announced that it will be investing $300 million in news programs, partnerships, and content, over the next three years.
As part of its fight against "coordinated inauthentic behaviour," Facebook is removing hundreds of spam accounts spreading clickbait to bring traffic to ad farms.
To help identify and take action against more types of misinformation, faster, Facebook announced that it is expanding fact-checking for photos and videos.
It must be a hard week for Alex Jones and InfoWars; Facebook, YouTube, and Apple have now permanently banned related channels, pages, and podcasts, citing multiple violations.
Following widespread criticism, Facebook last week began removing posts from its platform that contain misinformation inciting violence.
WhatsApp is proving to have a severe problem with fake news, so the company is going to be paying researchers to study it in hopes that it can find solutions.
Mexico has a general election coming up, and Facebook is working hard to protect it from abuse and exploitation.
Twitter is introducing election labels for candidates who are running for office in the 2018 U.S. midterm general election.
Twitter is in "Royal Wedding" mode and has just revealed the most viral tweets about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's upcoming wedding. Except that one of the most popular ones, was a fake.
Facebook has announced a pilot third-party fact-checking program in India's Karnataka state, to fight the spread of fake news. Similar programs are already in effect in the Philippines, France, Indonesia, and Italy.
Google has announced it's investing $300 million over the next three years to help publishers, and fight "fake news" through its Google News Initiative.
It's been 12 months since Facebook has started dominating the headlines. Most of the times, it was not about new, groundbreaking features, but about damage control and fixing the faulty ones. Is this the end of …
YouTube will now begin displaying links to Wikipedia alongside conspiracy theory videos, in an effort to dismantle and fight the propagation of fake news.
The Twitter community is up in arms due to the platform's decision to suspend thousands of false accounts, subsequently inspiring the trending hashtag, #TwitterLockOut. Here's what we know about it.
Want to learn the complex art of creating 'fake news'? Now you can. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a game that will teach you.
According to a new report from Gallup and the Knight Foundation, a growing number of Americans want regulation on how social networks and search engines surface and distribute news.