2025-01-07
Linda Yaccarino on Meta ending fact-checking: ‘Welcome to the party’
You probably didn’t have X CEO Linda Yaccarino praising Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on your CES 2025 bingo card, yet here we are. Speaking during a keynote address in Las Vegas, Yaccarino described Meta’s decision to end its longtime fact checking program and implement community notes as “exciting” and “validating.”
Yaccarino and and X owner Elon Musk have both championed the crowd-sourced fact-checkin [...]
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2025-01-31
Meta Safety Advisory Council says the company's moderation changes prioritize politics over safety
The Meta Safety Advisory Council has written the company a letter about its concerns with its recent policy changes, including its decision to suspend its fact-checking program. In it, the council sai [...]
2025-01-08
The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking for Facebook and Instagram
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that the company is swinging away from its efforts to corral its content. Meta is suspending its fact-checking program to move to an X-style Community Note [...]
2025-01-07
Meta is ditching third-party fact checkers on Facebook, Instagram
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a big shift in the company's approach to moderation and speech. Meta will be suspending its fact-checking program and will move to an X-style Community Notes mo [...]
2025-01-16
Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law
Google has told the EU it will not comply with a forthcoming fact-checking law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios. The company states that it will not be adding fact checks to search r [...]
2025-02-26
The Oversight Board will weigh in on Meta’s new hate speech policies
Less than two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation procedures, reportedly at the behest of Mark Zuckerberg and a small group of advisor [...]
2025-02-13
Civil society groups urge Meta’s Oversight Board to resign in protest
Meta’s Oversight Board is coming under new pressure to respond to the company’s recent policy changes on fact-checking and moderation, which were made without input from the advisory group. A coal [...]
2025-03-13
Facebook, Instagram and Threads will start testing Community Notes on March 18
Meta will start testing its Community Notes model, with which it's replacing human fact checkers, on Facebook, Instagram and Threads in the US on March 18. Notes won't appear publicly on pos [...]