Meta deals a blow to fact-checking. Critics say politics is to blame.
When PolitiFact won a Pulitzer in 2009, it put fact-checkers on the map. Donald Trump’s MAGA movement gave them plenty of work. Now, Meta’s fact-checking retrenchment threatens to hollow out the ...
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist said she quit The Washington Post after her Jeff Bezos cartoon was killed
Alongside Bezos, the cartoon shows Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong ... reshared the cartoon and a link to Telnaes' Substack post on X. Telnaes, who won a Pulitzer Prize ...
Washington Post cartoonist quits after Bezos satire is rejected
A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist has resigned from the ... In the cartoon, Mr Bezos, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI's Sam Altman are on their knees giving bags of cash to a statue of Trump ...
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Washington Post Cartoonist Reveals She Quit After Paper Killed Sketch With Bezos, Trump
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote that her editor prevented her from doing the "critical job" of holding "powerful people and institutions accountable." ...
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Bezos-Trump cartoon: Pulitzer winner resigns after Washington Post rejects sketch
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Post owner Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Patrick Soon-Shiong, and Mickey Mouse was rejected.
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A Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed
A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the ... Along with Bezos, Telnaes depicted Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman shown bringing Trump sacks of cash.
Soon to be out of a job, Meta’s fact-checkers battle a blaze of wildfire conspiracy theories
Just hours after Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg announced last Tuesday that the social media giant would eliminate its US-based fact-checkers, the iconic hills above Los Angeles began to smolder.