Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday the company — which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — will end its fact-checking program and overhaul its policies to favor free speech over strict ...

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Meta announced Tuesday it's doing away with third-party fact-checking in favor of community notes. Several lawmakers told BI the move is an indication Mark Zuckerberg is catering to Trump. Some ...

Governments worldwide are increasingly leveraging AI technology for content moderation, aiming to manage the vast amounts of information circulating online. While AI’s efficiency in identifying ...

Meta implemented “guardrails” in 2023 that exempted high-spending advertisers from automatic content moderation, instead routing their content to human reviewers. This system was designed to prevent ...

This is a bad moment for fact-checking. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which targets social media ...

Meta did not want to mistakenly penalize top brands and risk advertising dollars, so it designated some advertisers as exempt from its content-moderation process to prevent its multibillion-dollar ad ...

Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “societal and political pressure to moderate content”, social media users have questioned the value of ...

With 12 full days left until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, there are still concerns about if Meta can properly moderate political content on its platforms. Two months ago, a Facebook user put ...