An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst have published work in the journal Science calling into question the conclusions of a widely reported study—published in Science in 2023—finding the social platform's algorithms successfully filtered out untrustworthy news surrounding the 2020 election and were not major drivers of misinformation.

A false claim recently went viral “and there wasn’t anything happening to stop it," one election official said

The researchers found that Meta introduced a temporary, and more rigorous, algorithm during part of the study period that filtered out more misinformation than the standard algorithm.

Meanwhile, Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski continues to attract national attention, appearing Tuesday night on Fox News.

An Ohio sheriff was suspended from Facebook and barred from election security after a post urging people to 'write down' local Democrats' addresses while insulting Kamala Harris