That noise you heard Tuesday as you learned about Meta’s announcement that it would cease its fact-checking program was Mark Zuckerberg’s backbone flapping in the wind. Abandoning a commitment to ...
Fact-checking is not a panacea to misinformation. But for a social media company to abandon it, at a time of great ...
Zuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the ...
The social network has given up on fact-checking. That’s a good thing.
Bad-faith actors, including Donald Trump, are blaming the outcome on "diversity" in the fire department and a nonexistent ...
The clean cut hair has grown, his college kid's hoodie is now a gold chain, and his politics have swerved hard right.
Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and ...
There is nothing wrong with the truth, but there is everything wrong with handing politically motivated actors control over what is and is not true.
The Menlo Park, California-based company also removed a sentence from its “policy rationale” explaining why it bans certain hateful conduct. The now-deleted sentence said that hate speech “creates an ...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with a flood of fake news headlines after announcing that his social media sites ...
At the close of 2024 there were 813 billionaires in the United States with a combined total wealth of $6.72 trillion, ...
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 ...