Representatives of major tech companies -- including Meta, Google, Facebook and X -- skipped a public hearing focused on disinformation on social media hosted Wednesday by the government of Brazil.

Natalia Viana, of Brazil's leading investigative platform Agência Pública, writes that Zuckerberg's attack on fact-checkers ...

Donald Trump has been in office for less than 24 hours, but his administration is already working overtime to strip personnel ...

Jair Bolsonaro and a Times reporter discussed the former Brazilian president’s two mysterious nights at the Hungarian Embassy ...

Former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is facing criminal charges, has been invited to Trump's inauguration even though ...

The former Brazilian president, squeezed by criminal investigations, looks to the United States to shift his nation’s ...

The removal of Meta’s fact-checking feature will only apply to the US until its new community notes program is thoroughly ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to do away with Meta’s third-party fact-checking service was presented as a sweeping cultural ...

Fake news only available in countries run by oligarchs   Meta has told the Brazilian government that it doesn't yet have to ...

Meta told Brazil it would not yet end fact-checks outside the US, but its attempts to clarify its new social media policies fell flat Tuesday as the Latin American nation slammed measures which ...

As of 2023, about two-thirds of Brazilian schools imposed some restriction on cellphone use, while 28% banned them entirely, ...