At Facebook Inc. headquarters in Silicon Valley this week, engineers and researchers huddled around computers in a newly configured “war room” to fight misinformation ahead of the midterms. Almost ...

Facebook is introducing new policies to stem the flow of fake news, including partnering with third-party fact-checkers to flag fabricated articles in a seeming admission that humans still play a ...

An Interstate Fair crowd cheered and applauded the fair’s first “human checkers match.” “The blocks on the checkerboard were three feet square, and occupied the top of the stage in front of the ...

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What exactly is Facebook? It depends on when you asked Mark Zuckerberg. To see how Facebook became an election-influencing player, we dug into the archives and looked at the company's changing view of ...