To researchers who have studied moderation efforts and platforms, it’s the most recent move toward a more freewheeling and ...

Even before the election, the world’s richest man, billionaire Elon Musk, was inseparable from Trump. There’s also Musk’s one-time PayPal colleague, Peter Thiel, who has been a longtime benefactor to ...

It wasn’t just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration.

Even Donald Trump’s former allies don’t understand Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to block forthcoming details of special ...

Facebook's new content moderation modeled after X's "Community Notes" has been praised by free speech advocates but is unlikely to ease legal liability for Meta.

“Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U ...

Kicking off CES on Tuesday morning in front of a packed crowd at the Venetian, the show’s organizers weren’t afraid of ...

When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook, Instagram and Threads would end third-party fact-checking, the political world read it as a kind of capitulation — a company sacrificing its values on the ...

Mark Zuckerberg's new freedom of speech policies mark a shift in Facebook's moderation, following years of scrutiny over ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the 2016 policy led to excessive censorship and the platforms will adopt new, user-based ...