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What the end of Meta's fact-checking could mean for health, medical misinformation

Meta announced this week it was ending third-party fact-checking and moving towards community notes. Some experts fear it could lead to a rise in health misinformation.

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‘You're not going to be able to trust what you see’: top fact-checkers on Meta

Mark Zuckerberg announced this week the end of Meta's program with third-party fact-checkers, accusing them of "censorship" and "political bias." Instead, Zuckerberg says Meta’s platforms will shift to community notes,

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Will Meta moderate its high volume of content without fact-checkers?

Kate Klonick, an associate professor at St. John’s University School of Law gives her take on Meta scrapping its fact-checkers from moderating content across its platforms.

Yahoo · 2d

Meta ends fact-checking program

Barron's · 2d

White House Says 'Not Going To Comment' On Meta Ending US Fact-checking

The White House on Friday refused to comment on tech giant Meta's shock announcement earlier this week that it was ending its third-party fact-checking program in the United States.

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False posts about 'China health emergency' misuse old Covid photos

Health surveillance reports from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in January 2025 did not announce a ...

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The Rate of HMPV Infections in Northern China Is Declining, Chinese Health Official Says

The rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in northern China is declining, a health official said, ...

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International sanctions have left Syria’s health system on life support

U.S. and E.U. sanctions aimed at punishing the former Assad regime have made it more difficult for Syrian hospitals to ...

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Rising HMPV cases in China are ‘what we would expect to see’ in winter, health officials say

As China experiences a rise in respiratory infections this winter, one little-known virus has gotten a lot of attention – and ...

Is the world ready for the next pandemic?

An awkward question remains five years after COVID-19 began its deadly rampage: is the world ready to handle the next ...

This Is the Deadliest Foodborne Illness, According to the World Health Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization teamed up to publish a new ...

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The World Health Organization begs China to stop being China

It has been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic sprung out of Wuhan, China, and the World Health Organization is still incapable of doing anything other than begging the Chinese Communist ...

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American Global Health Leadership in a Second Trump Administration

The Trump administration may undermine U.S. leadership and the international system of global health cooperation. Pandemic preparedness, resilient health systems and reproductive rights will suffer wo ...