The News Integrity Initiative debuted with $14 million from Facebook
07 Apr 2017 7:43 AM
The court ruled that the US social media giant was not obliged to actively search out and delete defamatory posts.
08 Mar 2017 10:46 AM
The companies hope to extend it to other news organisations.
24 Feb 2017 8:06 AM
The image went viral with the fake tale of the impala being a martyr for helping its fawns survive.
16 Feb 2017 4:32 PM
Fake news came to prominence during last year's US presidential election campaign.
11 Feb 2017 5:26 PM
Facebook also will stop customizing trending lists to cater to each user's personal interests.
26 Jan 2017 8:35 AM
The researchers came up with potentially troublesome conclusions.
22 Jan 2017 9:16 AM
Facebook has been persistently criticized in the past year over how it polices everything.
19 Jan 2017 7:43 AM
Modamani's image was shared on Facebook on a series of anonymous accounts, alongside posts claiming he was responsible for militant attacks.
14 Jan 2017 7:39 AM
Brown announced the move in a post on her Facebook page on Friday.
07 Jan 2017 8:01 AM
Fake news sites run from made-up articles that start with a grain of truth but exaggerate it to fit highly opinionated perspectives.
30 Dec 2016 11:25 AM
Facebook will be required to build a legal protection office in Germany that is available 24X7.
26 Dec 2016 12:59 AM
Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its huge.
16 Dec 2016 9:07 AM
There are basic things news readers can do themselves to spot fake news.
16 Dec 2016 8:58 AM
It’s now clear that so-called fake news can have real world consequences, says Clinton.
10 Dec 2016 1:02 AM
The electoral victory of Donald Trump has sparked heightened scrutiny of online and social media.
16 Nov 2016 8:12 AM
Facebook had a tool to weed out fake news circulating on the social network this year.
15 Nov 2016 7:51 AM
Google is taking steps to punish sites that manufacture falsehoods.
15 Nov 2016 7:27 AM