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Meta scrapped its fact-checking program in US. (File photo) Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with US President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Semafor news website reported, citing a source familiar with the matter. Meta and Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to a Reuters…
Washington: There will be “real-world harm” if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg’s claim such moderation amounts to censorship. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s surprise announcement this week to slash content…
Meta’s decision to abandon its fact-checking program and adopt a crowdsourced model emphasising “free expression” has sparked intense debate about its implications for misinformation and hate speech online. This profound shift in content moderation comes less than two weeks before Donald Trump’s reinstatement as President and…
Manila: Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warned Wednesday of “extremely dangerous times ahead” in an interview with AFP after social media giant Meta ended its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram. Ressa and the Rappler news site she co-founded have spent years fighting online disinformation…
Palm Beach, Florida: US President-elect Donald Trump said Facebook-parent Meta’s abrupt policy shift on content moderation, including ending fact-checking in the United States, was “probably” motivated by his threats against CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump expressed satisfaction with…
Facebook pays to use fact-checks from around 80 organizations globally on its platform. Washington, United States: Elon Musk on Tuesday praised the decision by fellow billionaire Mark Zuckerberg to end fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US. “This is cool,” Musk posted on his X…