A prominent fact-checking organization used by Facebook to moderate political content reacted to news that it will revamp its fact-checking to better avoid bias with an article outlining its disappointment and disagreement with the move. 'Lead Stories was surprised and disappointed to first learn through media
Mark Zuckerberg, who often bends with the political winds, is getting out of the fact-checking business.And this is part of a broader effort by the Meta CEO to ingratiate himself with Donald Trump after a long and testy relationship.After a previous outcry, Zuck made a
President Trump’s tariffs appear to be pushing prices higher. Inflation picked up in June, according to new data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, grew at an annualized rate
The idea that people have an unalienable right to pursue their own happiness is a very radical idea. Prior to the eighteenth century, almost no one in the world believed it. Even today, only a small sliver of humankind agrees with it. Equally radical is the
Any practicing Catholic will tell you that Pope Leo XIV answers to a higher power, but none would say that higher power is the Internal Revenue Service. Yet, as Tax Notes’ Robert Goulder notes, the Holy Father will likely still need to file income taxes. This
Democrats held onto their narrow majorities in Virginia's legislature as they won two of three special elections on Tuesday in the first ballot box showdowns of 2025.The closely-watched contests were seen by the political world as the first gauge of the mood of voters
A prominent fact-checking organization used by Facebook to moderate political content reacted to news that it will revamp its fact-checking to better avoid bias with an article outlining its disappointment and disagreement with the move. 'Lead Stories was surprised and disappointed to first learn through media
The White House’s outgoing cyber czar, Harry Coker, called for three key things to meet the growing threat of digital attacks: more funding, deregulation and opening up cyber jobs to those without college degrees.As adversaries like Iran, China and Russia lob near-constant attacks on the
President-elect Trump reiterated that 'all hell will break out' if the hostages still held in Gaza have not been freed by the time he enters office in two weeks on Jan. 20. Trump was asked about the threats he first levied in early December at
Jimmy Carter, the centenarian former president who lived long enough to see Donald Trump elected again but died just before the start of the new year, has a foreign policy legacy that wasn't just defined by his four years in the White House. Over the term