Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Elon Musk's X, doing away with fact-checkers and other content moderation in favor of community notes and freer speech.
The Meta CEO announced changes to content moderation just in time for a familiar incoming presidential administration.
Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan.
Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.
Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
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Mark Zuckerberg Was Right To Fire Facebook's Rogue Fact-Checkers
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Don’t be fooled by Mark Zuckerberg cutting Facebook's fact-checkers
Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would end fact-checking on its platform. In the process, a partnership with the network of third parties that has provided review and ratings of viral misinformation since 2016 will be terminated.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will now let users call gay people “mentally ill,” describe women as property and refer to transgender people as “it.” In an apparent attempt to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump,
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Eternal Apology TourThe incoming administration was reportedly tipped off about the video, which can be understood as a Facebook-style targeted ad with an audience of one: Donald Trump, who has previously suggested that Mark “Zuckerschmuck” should be in jail,
There will be "real-world harm" if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg's claim such moderation amounts to censorship.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision?
But it took days before their mistake or malice was reversed, by which time the damage was done and the story was read by fewer people than it would have been. Zuckerberg conceded, “A program intended to inform often became a tool to censor. … Too much harmless content gets censored, too many people find themselves wrongly locked” out.
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