# Reuters Reuters is an international news agency founded in 1851 in London by Paul Julius Reuter, now the news division of Thomson Reuters. With the [[Associated Press]] it is one of the two dominant global Anglophone wire services, supplying text, photo, and video reporting to member and subscriber outlets worldwide and cultivating a reputation built on speed and a house norm of dispassionate, sourced copy. ## Reuters Fact Check **Reuters Fact Check** is the agency's dedicated misinformation-verification desk, launched on **February 12, 2020** in partnership with Facebook as part of [[Meta]]'s third-party fact-checker program — the wire-service integration of [[Fact-Checking]] described in the [[Fact-Checking]] terminology entry. The desk reviews viral claims, manipulated media, and deepfakes, publishing verdicts distributed across Reuters channels. Reuters is a verified signatory of the [[International Fact-Checking Network]] Code of Principles. Its Meta partnership was part of the broader U.S. third-party fact-checker program that Meta announced it would discontinue in **January 2025**, replacing it with a Community-Notes-style user-annotation system. ## See Also - [[Fact-Checking]] — the practice and infrastructure this desk is part of - [[Associated Press]] — the parallel wire-service fact-check desk - [[International Fact-Checking Network]] — standards body for the field - [[Meta]] — operated the third-party fact-checker program Reuters joined in 2020 - [[Misinformation]] / [[Disinformation]] — the target categories