Meta Abandons Fact Checking & CES Debuts Fresh Tech: Tech & Gaming News This Week
From Meta's new hate speech rules to CES dropping a bunch of cool and weird tech, here's all the tech and gaming news to know this week.
71 organizations signed a letter warning Mark Zuckerberg about ending fact-checking on Meta in the US
The International Fact-Checking Network proposed crowdsourcing in conjunction with professionals, a "new model." ...
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Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation
Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the spread of online lies amon ...
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Many users now searching how to delete Facebook, Instagram as Meta scraps fact checking: Report
Meta’s decision to do away with the third-party fact-checking has led to a significant backlash. According to a TechCrunch ...
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Will Meta's scrap of fact-checking have any real impact on ad dollars?
Meta is betting big on free speech and scraping its fact-checking programme, replacing it with a community-driven scheme ...
Zuckerberg has turbo-boosted enshittification, and we’re all going to pay
When I first joined social media, my feed was filled with what my friends were up to. Now, Facebook has been taken over by ...
X’s ‘Community Notes’: A model for Meta?
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said Jan 7 that the group's platforms including Facebook and Instagram would in future imitate ...
Zuckerberg made fact-check changes after Trump visit: GOP congressman
The fact-check change came alongside a set of sweeping policy and staffing refreshes at Meta, including the appointment of ...
‘Why Go To P*rnhub When You Can Go To X?’ – Mark Cuban Slams Ad Pitch By X CEO
Only minutes after X chief executive Linda Yaccarino pitched marketers to spend more with X at the CES event in Las Vegas, ...
Deleting Facebook Surges In Popularity—Sudden Decision Pushes Users To Quit
Commenting on the surge, Gizmodo noted that “apparently not everyone is ready to live in a post-truth world... Fittingly, ...
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An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...
Facebook finally figured it out. It can't play Big Brother on ideas | Opinion
Mark Zuckerberg helped the Biden administration suppress speech it didn't like. And now, Facebook is atoning for its mistakes ...