Meta on Friday announced it will officially end its fact-checking program in favor of community notes on its Facebook, Instagram, and Threads platforms on Monday.

resident Donald Trump continues to advocate for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine as the conflict enters its third year. The United States recently helped broker a partial ceasefire, focusing on safer navigation in the Black Sea for shipments and halting long-range strikes on energy sites. However, disagreements persist over the ceasefire's timing and scope. Reports from various outlets say Trump is frustrated with both Presidents Putin and Zelenskyy.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now serving as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump, continues to face renewed scrutiny over his use of testosterone replacement therapy—an anabolic steroid—after posting a series of shirtless workout videos that went viral and reignited earlier claims he was using performance-enhancing drugs.

U.S. President Donald Trump placed reciprocal tariffs on a group of uninhabited islands occupied only by penguins and other wildlife.

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Penguins are the most abundant birds on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands group. The islands are also home to other animals including seals, flying birds and invertebrates — but no humans.

In his Rose Garden announcement of sweeping new “reciprocal tariffs,” President Donald Trump held aloft a misleading chart that claimed to give a breakdown of the tariffs other countries charge the U.S. and the corresponding tariff that the U.S. will now impose against those countries.

“Reciprocal. That means they do it to us and we do it to them,” Trump said in his April 2 speech. “Very simple. Can’t get any simpler than that.”

Texas added more net jobs than any state in 2024, although other states have higher per capita job growth. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on El Paso Matters.

More than 37 million Americans are consuming drinking water contaminated with toxic "forever chemicals" that exceed federal safety limits, according to a recent USA Today report. The report analyzed the first Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) update since President Donald Trump returned to office.

President Trump, as he announced sweeping tariffs, batted away “very tired predictions” from critics of his economic agenda by citing a large decline in the price of eggs.

“The price of eggs dropped now 59 percent, and they’re going down more and the availability is fantastic,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about tariffs and trade – most of which he has made before – in the Wednesday speech in which he announced a sweeping set of global tariffs.

Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s remarks.

Canada’s dairy tariffs

Trump correctly noted that Canada has tariffs exceeding 250% on some US dairy products. However, he falsely claimed that merely “the first little carton of milk” exported to Canada faces a “very low price,” but “then it gets up to 275, 300%.”

Misinformation is nothing new. It has, however, become ubiquitous and, in some cases, more difficult and time-consuming than ever to debunk. 

When we first started publishing in 2003 — which predated Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005) and Twitter (2006) — viral misinformation took the form of chain emails. Although they were a problem at the time, chain emails were to misinformation what the Pony Express is to ChatGPT.