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- Nate Silver on “The Rise and Fall of ‘Fact-Checking'”
From Silver's Substack newsletter yesterday: So, the news is that Facebook is eliminating a partnership that began in December 2016 with independent fact-checking organizations and replacing them with a Twitter/X style Community Notes program. To which I say: that sounds fine, actually…. My impression is that journalists who label themselves as misinformation experts or fact-checkers have a relatively poor capacity for self-reflection, perhaps because these are such self-aggrandizing labels to begin with. But that's a hard claim to prove. It might be wrong, and even if it's mostly right, I'm sure you could point to counterexamples. Conversely, I have a relatively favorable impression of Community Notes on X. But it's a relatively young program, and community-driven moderation can be hard to scale and can eventually develop its own toxic hierarchies — and Facebook is a much bigger platform than X. I just don't think it has done journalism much good to have a group of… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - ‘I can’t keep running my pharmacy from my savings’
Dipak Pau says pharmacists like him are using their own savings to cover the rising cost of drugs. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - From Japan to St. Lucia, here’s where airfare is falling in 2025
International airfare from the U.S. is trending lower this year while domestic fares are up. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - All 5 living presidents to attend Jimmy Carter’s state funeral
All five living presidents will be present to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter during his funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - Alarm as skyrocketing flu cases add to NHS strainsMore than 5,400 patients in hospital with flu as delays in A&E and for ambulances mount. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
- The Costs of the Los Angeles Fires
Damages are now estimated to reach up to $57 billion. The blazes add to a string of climate-related catastrophes hitting businesses and homeowners. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
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