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Facebook is expanding its third-party fact checking program to Instagram, starting with US, and will downplay posts deemed fake on its Explore and Hashtag pages (www.poynter.org)
2019-8-16 Facebook Instagram

WhatsApp-advised startup Meedan unveils a tool that auto-responds to fact-check queries from chat apps like Messenger and WeChat if a fact-checked answer exists (www.poynter.org)
2019-8-10 Startup WhatsApp WeChat

Instagram starts reducing reach of posts identified as false by Facebook's 50+ fact-check partners, who will see Instagram posts in their dashboards this week (www.poynter.org)
2019-5-7 Facebook Instagram

Study: Journalists need help covering misinformation - "According to the survey, 55% of journalists said they wanted training on how to report on false information and 62% said they wanted guidelines on when and how they should publish stories about it." (www.poynter.org)
2019-4-28

The New York Times sells premium ads based on how an article makes you feel (www.poynter.org)
2019-4-15 New York

Snopes pulls out of its fact-checking partnership with Facebook (www.poynter.org)
2019-2-2 Facebook

Fake news outlets switch domain names to get past Facebook's fact-checking system, publishing old stories under new names to regain reach on Facebook (www.poynter.org)
2019-1-31 Facebook

Bots spread a lot of fakery during the 2016 election. But they can also debunk it (www.poynter.org)
2018-11-22

Analysis of 14M tweets from May 2016 and March 2017 found bots accounted for 34% of shares of articles from low-credibility sources but were only 6% of accounts (www.poynter.org)
2018-11-21

WhatsApp to distribute $50K each to 20 projects from 11 countries to research spread of misinformation on the platform; WhatsApp won't provide any user data (www.poynter.org)
2018-11-14 WhatsApp

After The Weekly Standard labeled a Think Progress story as false, Facebook now allows fact-checker to rate the headline separately from the article (www.poynter.org)
2018-10-26 Facebook

After BuzzFeed and Panoply's exit from Podcasting, some companies are re-evaluating podcasts (www.poynter.org)
2018-9-24

After BuzzFeed's cuts to its audio team and Panoply's exit from podcast content, creators re-evaluate podcast revenue potential and audience measurement (www.poynter.org)
2018-9-24

How several fact-checking sites around the world approach harassment and death threats following partnerships with Facebook to stem misinformation (www.poynter.org)
2018-9-11 Facebook

How misinformation spreads on Line — one of the most popular messaging apps in Southeast Asia (www.poynter.org)
2018-8-22 Asia Southeast Asia

Gallup-Knight survey of 1,203 US adults: 85% don't think tech platforms do enough to combat fake news; 88% want more transparency about how content is surfaced (www.poynter.org)
2018-8-16

Fact-checkers have debunked this fake news site 80 times. It's still publishing on Facebook. (www.poynter.org)
2018-8-5 Facebook

After Facebook removed 196 pages and 87 accounts for policy violations in Brazil, far-right activists are harassing fact checkers not involved with the removals (www.poynter.org)
2018-7-29

A look at fact-checking efforts on China's WeChat, which has about 1B MAUs, many of which are small unofficial projects (www.poynter.org)
2018-7-5 China WeChat

Americans believe two-thirds of news on social media is misinformation (www.poynter.org)
2018-6-21 U.S.

A look at Facebook's month-long rollout of its fact-checking tool and its partners in Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Colombia (www.poynter.org)
2018-4-21 Mexico India Facebook Indonesia Philippines

13 J-school deans and chairs issue letter of concern to Sinclair (www.poynter.org)
2018-4-9

Facebook's tool for fact-checking partners only lets them flag links, not videos or memes; Facebook says it's working on a way to add images to the tool (www.poynter.org)
2018-2-23 Facebook

Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback. why. – Poynter (www.poynter.org)
2017-12-24

Glenn Beck makes big cuts at The Blaze, Mercury Radio Arts (www.poynter.org)
2017-9-1

Snopes turns to readers to avoid shutting down due to legal fight: ‘we need your help' (www.poynter.org)
2017-7-25

Chris Christie said he didn't go to the beach. Then, a newspaper showed him the pictures (www.poynter.org)
2017-7-3

Secretary Tillerson allows Fox News, excludes others from DMZ meeting (www.poynter.org)
2017-3-19

President Trump will not attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner (www.poynter.org)
2017-2-26 Trump

NPR has created a team devoted to covering President Trump's conflicts of interest (www.poynter.org)
2017-2-21 Trump

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