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Facebook's New Free Speech Policy Shows Business Getting Back to Business

It’s the latest company to step back from dangerous alliances with political factions.

Reason

Fact-Checking Group Rates Meta's Claim That Moderation Is Censorship As 'False'

There will be "real-world harm" if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned while disputing Mark Zuckerberg's claim such moderation amounts to censorship.

International Business Times

After Meta pullout, fact-checking partners anticipate job cuts, editorials point to global ripples

Meta’s decision this week to abandon its fact-checking programme, starting from the US, has reportedly triggered alarm bells among several fact-checking organisations. That the move comes as a response to the politics of the new regime in the US has also been apparent.

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Meta’s move to end fact-checking reflects turn toward freewheeling internet

Mark Zuckerberg’s invocation of ‘cultural tipping point’ comes as number of fact-checking initiatives has plateaued.

Al Jazeera

Mullin: Zuck met Trump before changes

The Meta boss's policy and staffing overhauls have been widely criticized as an attempt to appease Trump

Salon

Meta oversight board members say losing fact-checking could undermine public trust

Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and novelist Khaled Mansour have warned that disinformation ‘can very much kill’

The Independent UK

An Urgent Meeting of the Fact-Check Legion of Doom

Mark Zuckerberg has had it with these people.

Reason

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Google and Microsoft donate $1m each to Trump’s inaugural fund

Tech giants follow footsteps of other major companies, including Amazon, Meta, OpenAI and Uber

The Guardian - US

Mark Zuckerberg’s alliance with Donald Trump proves just how low he’ll go

ANALYSIS: The Facebook and Instagram boss has shown just how deep he’s willing to stoop for the benefit of his commercial empire — and just how little his last eight years of promises really meant, writes Io Dodds

The Independent UK

Meta has ‘heard the message’ from Trump, says whistleblower Frances Haugen

Mark Zuckerberg’s move to end factchecking in US reflects president-elect’s views on social media, says Haugen

The Guardian - UK

CEOs react to Zuckerberg’s message to Trump

Also: Trump considers "state of emergency," eBay stock soars on Facebook news.

Fortune

Meta's Updated 'Hateful Conduct Policy' Will Allow Users To Say LGBT Members Have 'Mental Illness'

Meta lets users call LGBTQ+ people mentally ill, citing 'free speech.' Critics fear this fuels hate and discrimination.

International Business Times UK

Mark Zuckerberg wore one of the rarest watches in the world, worth $900,000, while announcing the end of fact-checking at Meta

Greubel Forsey only makes two or three of the Hand Made 1 each year, which takes around 6,000 hours to construct.

Fortune

Meta’s factchecking partners brace for layoffs

Meta has provided over $100m for certified organizations to conduct factchecks on its platforms since 2016

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International Business Times

Campaigners Fear Spike In Hate Speech As Meta Lifts Restrictions

Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel hate speech.

International Business Times

Political Chess Or True Beliefs? Zuckerberg's Surprise Trump Pivot

The clean cut hair has grown, his college kid's hoodie is now a gold chain, and his politics have swerved hard right.

The Guardian - UK

Meta’s changes to policing will lead to clash with EU and UK, say experts

Politicians criticise Mark Zuckerberg’s choice to scrap factcheckers, affecting Facebook, Instagram and Threads

International Business Times

Meta's 'Musk Playbook' Fans Misinformation Concerns

Meta's decision to swap professional US fact-checkers with crowd-sourced moderation has raised fears that Facebook and Instagram could become magnets for misinformation similar to the Elon Musk-owned X, researchers say.

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less

Editorial: Loosening already limited safeguards on social media platforms is not just damaging. It could ultimately prove deadly

International Business Times

US Tech Titans Ramp Up Pressure On EU

Mark Zuckerberg's U-turn on Meta's content rules piles pressure on the EU -- already in the crosshairs of Donald Trump ally Elon Musk -- to prove it still calls the shots when it comes to Big Tech's behaviour in Europe.

International Business Times

Business Expert Warns US Now A 'Kleptocracy' After Meta Abandons Fact Checkers: 'We Are Becoming More Like Russia Every Day'

An NYU business professor accused President-elect Donald Trump of leveraging his power to shape the U.S. government in a manner resembling Russia's kleptocracy, lambasting, "We are becoming more like Russia every day, that's where we are."

The Guardian - UK

‘Dispiriting’: factchecker reacts to Meta’s move to scrap role

Mark Zuckerberg accused fact-checkers in US of making biased decisions

Latin Times

New Facebook 'Free Expression' Policy Allows Users to Call Women 'Objects,' Accuse Gay People of Being 'Mentally Ill'

Meta has announced that it will be removing restrictions on "hateful conduct," allowing users refer to women as "objects" and gay people as "mentally ill."

Reason

Zuck Finds His Spine

Plus: The new manifest destiny, California wildfires, Canada's immigration troubles, and more...

The Conversation

Alliance between Meta and Trump is likely to create informational, economic and geopolitical conflicts around the world

Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced on Tuesday 7 a series of changes to the content moderation actions on his platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads, eliminating fact-checkers, slowing down the processes of taking down potentially damaging content from the social fabric and reducing/reallocating his own moderation teams - all in the…

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