What started as a pilot project 16 months ago is now one of Facebook’s primary weapons against fake news.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with Facebook's latest monthly user numbers for Brazil.

Six months ahead of the Brazilian election, one fact-checker is using support from Facebook to better reach its readers.

A recent debunk from Snopes exposed a grey area for Facebook’s fact-checking tool.

Over the past year, fact-checking projects’ Facebook engagement has dropped precipitously, at least in part due to political cycles. At the same time, while it’s still early to draw conclusions, there has been no discernible change in their engagement since Facebook announced a major change to its News Feed algorithm Jan. 11.

Facebook announced Tuesday a new project aimed at helping local newspapers build digital subscriptions. The Facebook Journalism Project: Local News Subscriptions Accelerator puts $3 million and three months into working with between 10 and 15 metro publications, according to a press release.

On social media, fake memes are everywhere. And on Facebook, they’re not being met with the full force of the tools available for other dubious content.

On Monday, Facebook announced a new focus on local news in the News Feed. Three people who work in or with local news described their reaction to that news with the same word: whiplash.

Facebook is adding Italy to its list of countries where fact-checkers can review and flag fake news.

Facebook announced Tuesday that, starting next week, it will partner with fact-checking outlet Pagella Politica to cut down on the amount of misinformation on the social media platform. The move makes Italy the fifth country where fact-checking organizations are reviewing fake stories through a dedicated mechanism on Facebook, after the United States, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Kevin Bacon isn’t actually a Donald Trump supporter. Miley Cyrus didn’t leave the United States to become a British citizen. Sylvester Stallone didn’t say that Barack Obama is a “closet homosexual.”

Unless you’re searching on Facebook, that is.

Facebook announced a new experiment in local news on Tuesday with "Today In."

The feature, which brings together local news, updates and events, can be found in the drop-down menu on Facebook's mobile app in six cities: New Orleans; Little Rock, Arkansas; Billings, Montana; Peoria, Illinois; Olympia, Washington; and Binghamton, New York.