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 [...]

2025-01-07

Meta is ditching third-party fact checkers

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a major shift in the company's approach to moderation and speech. Meta is ditching its fact-checking program and moving to an X-style Community Notes model [...]

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 [...]

2025-01-21

Meta is trying to lure TikTok creators with a new bonus program

The TikTok ban may have lasted only a few hours (at least for now), but Meta is still trying to capitalize on its rival’s tenuous future. Meta has rolled out a new “breakthrough bonus program” t [...]

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 [...]

2025-03-13

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 [...]

2025-01-06

Meta adds UFC CEO and Trump booster Dana White to its board

UFC CEO Dana White is joining Meta's board, the company announced today. The addition of the mixed-martial arts impresario jives with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's well-documented UFC fandom, b [...]

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 [...]

2025-02-14

Meta is reportedly working on humanoid robots that help with chores

If you look at your Roomba with disgust, thinking about what a far cry it is from the Jetsons’ Rosey the Robot, help is on the way. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Meta plans to leverage its advan [...]