As social media illustrates, misinformation is more likely to be believed when the disseminator is a family member or friend.

CompCom accuses X, Facebook of amplifying misinformation By Sibahle Malinga, ITWeb senior news journalist.Johannesburg, 25 Feb 2025News media bears the cost of fact-checking misinformation spread on ...

The Maine House of Representatives' Democratic speaker, Ryan Fecteau, deleted his X account days after censuring Republican ...

While the value-added tax claim is a trifling sum for X, the case is significant as it hinges on the way social networks ...

Meta will rely on its users to flag bad posts, weeks after it loosened moderation rules and ended its fact-checking program.

After MP Paul Waugh accused Meta of turning Facebook into "Epstein's own paedophile island", Facebook's representative said online child abuse imagery needed a "whole of society response" where tech ...

A screenshot authentically shows that Elon Musk posted the following on his social media platform X: "Anyone protesting the Trump Administration will be suspended from X. All anti-Trump drama can go ...

Earlier this year, Meta followed in X’s footsteps by abandoning independent fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram and replacing them with X-inspired community notes. Unlike Elon Musk’s takeover of X ...

So, at least temporarily, I decided to give it a try. If nothing else, giving up social media — which for me meant X, Facebook and Instagram, the only three sites I regularly use — was an ...

Where Twitter/X and Meta's suite of social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) utilize a checkmark verification system, Bluesky does away with this. Instead, users can self-verify on the ...

A post shared on Facebook claims Elon Musk has purportedly “[decided] to withdraw all support for [World Boxing Organization ...