Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Meta Fact-Checkers For ‘Political Bias’: What Could Go Wrong?!?
“Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created,” Zuckerberg declared ...
The dynamics that polarize us on social media are about to get worse
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced big changes in how the company addresses misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Instead of relying on independent third-party ...
A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires
An initiative called Free Our Feeds, backed by the founder of Wikipedia, aims to protect the social media technology that ...
America Magazine5d
Facebook was right to ditch fact-checking—but it should learn from the limits of Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’
The previous fact-checking/moderation practices at both Meta and X were problematic and in need of an overhaul. The Community ...
Intelligencer on MSN4d
What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
On Joe Rogan’s podcast, Zuckerberg made it clear he was ready to do business: In his peculiar black T-shirt and gold chain — ...
Reason on MSN11d
Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook's Rogue Fact-Checkers
A new era is dawning at Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that third-party fact-checking organizations would no ...
‘Meta sees me as a golden goose.’ How Zuckerberg’s AI creations went rogue and gave the game away
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our ...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Done Listening to His Users
Meta’s return to political content, looser moderation rules, and Trump-friendly policies look a lot like Musk’s vision for X.
New York Magazine4d
What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
There is little to Mark Zuckerberg beyond the desire to make ... equivalent to a quick-hit Wikipedia that performs the truth-telling task adequately. More important, news organizations can ...
MIT Technology Review1d
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If you’ve heard of Bluesky, you’ve probably heard of it as a clone of Twitter where liberals can take refuge. But under the ...
Reason11d
Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook's Rogue Fact-Checkers
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that third ... more closely mirroring the Wikipedia approach. Even The Times begrudgingly admits that "researchers have found the program can be effective ...