Lionel Bonaventure - AFP / Getty ImagesPremium A Look Back at Facebook's Censorship Era The era of fact-checking is quickly coming to an end on Meta's platforms, but it's unclear if it's gone for good. By C. Douglas Golden January 23, 2025
Mike Coppola / Getty ImagesCommentary Fans Melt Down After Kim Kardashian Drops Subtle Melania Message - Did She Tip Her Vote? Kardashian's subtle nod to the first lady brought out the worst in America's wretched "other half": Trump-hating woke cultists. By Michael Schwarz January 21, 2025
Aphotografia / Getty ImagesCommentary Video: Pro-Trans Woman Furious When Man Confuses Her for Transgender 'Woman' "Oh, of course you're a woman, of course." Those are the words the LGBT community lives by. Why did they enrage this woman? By C. Douglas Golden January 19, 2025
Ezra Acayan / Getty ImagesCommentary The True Test for Meta: Unjustly Suspended Facebook Accounts Fire Back Meta's crackdown on free speech hasn't just been at the hands of fact checkers, and these pro-lifers were victims of the process. By C. Douglas Golden January 10, 2025
STR - Jiji Press - AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary With 'Fact-Checkers' On Their Way Out at Facebook, Babylon Bee Notes 12 Times Platform Fact-Checked Satire "USA Today, another one of Facebook's fact-checking partners, helpfully pointed out that this was satire," the Bee mockingly noted on one. By C. Douglas Golden January 9, 2025
Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesCommentary Zuckerberg Drops 'Fact-Checking,' Says Process Eroded Trust. NYT Blames ... Fake News “I don’t believe we were doing anything, in any form, with bias,” one fact-checker said in comments repeated by the Times. By C. Douglas Golden January 8, 2025
Drew Angerer - AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary Mark Zuckerberg Axes 'Politically Biased' Fact Check System, Announces Massive Free Speech Moves for Facebook Zuckerberg is making massive changes to his ubiquitous social media platform. Is this a sign of major change ... or something sinister? By Bryan Chai January 7, 2025
deepseauwa / Instagram screen shotCommentary Research Team Drops Camera Into Abyssal Pacific Trench - It Captures Terrifying Images They dropped a camera to one of the deepest depths in the ocean, and what they saw may be disturbing to some. By Jared Harris December 25, 2024
Stephanie Scarbrough / APCommentary FBI Agent Arrested, Hit with Multiple Felony Charges Rape charges against Valdivia, whether true or not, remind us that the FBI - assuming we need it at all - must employ only honest agents. By Michael Schwarz December 2, 2024
Fox 4 NOW / YouTube Screen Shot Alleged Shoplifter Busted After Police Check Her Social Media: 'Essentially Incriminated Herself' An alleged shoplifter was arrested by police after investigators found her social media showing "incriminating" videos of the crime. By Jared Harris November 28, 2024