For years, Zuckerberg said, “governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.” No longer. Meta is abolishing its third-party fact-checking program, starting in the U.S.; loosening its content filters;
A headline saying that tech billionaire Elon Musk had just bought Boeing spread online in December along with other false claims following the Nov. 5 U.S. election saying that Musk, a supporter of President-elect Donald Trump,
It’s also the latest indication that Zuckerberg is trying to buddy up to incoming president Donald Trump, and is in that respect becoming more like Trump’s current right-hand man in tech: Elon Musk.
Meta, the social media company that launched an independent fact-checking program in 2016, will get rid of fact checkers to usher in other changes to its moderation policies.
Meta has ended its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram. Instead, it will implement community notes similar to the model used by X. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this move aligns with priorities of the incoming Donald Trump administration and aims to prioritize free speech over biased fact-checking.
From endorsing Germany’s far-right AfD to attacking UK leaders, Musk's actions highlight the risks of unchecked power in the digital age.
ABC aired 'The View' after the post about its supposed cancellation was shared. The claim of ABC's sale to Musk originated on a satirical website.
In a dramatic shift in content moderation policies, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram would no longer fact-che.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov questioned Meta's timing to drop fact-checkers, saying that the decision may have been politically motivated.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says "community notes" will now moderate content. That already happens on Elon Musk's X. Here's how they work — and don't.
Not content with having the ear of incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk has been trashing European politicians on both the left and right, and using posts on his social media platform,