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Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?
Meta is joining X and YouTube in shifting moderation to users. Are you ready?
'Long overdue': Deepwater's Gene Munster applauds Meta's decision to dump fact-checking
Gene Munster, Deepwater Asset Mgmt. managing partner, joins 'Fast Money' to talk Meta changing moderation policies.
Business leaders and lawmakers react to Meta's content moderation changes
Meta announced Tuesday it's doing away with third-party fact-checking in favor of community notes. Several lawmakers told BI the move is an indication Mark Zuckerberg is catering to Trump.
Disinformation experts slam Meta decision to end US fact-checking
Tech giant Meta's shock announcement to end its US fact-checking program triggered scathing criticism Tuesday from disinformation researchers who warned it risked opening the floodgates for proliferating false narratives.
Meta scraps fact-checking program, brings back political content
Meta on Tuesday announced it will eliminate its third-party fact-checking program to "restore free expression" and move to a "Community Notes" model, similar to the system that exists on Elon Musk's platform X.
Elon Musk is vindicated following Meta lifting restrictions, says 1789 Capital's Omeed Malik
Omeed Malik, 1789 Capital founder, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss Meta lifting restrictions on speech and social media fact-checking.
Meta ends fact-checking efforts as it aligns with incoming Trump administration
Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, announced a seismic shift in its content moderation policies on Tuesday. The company will discontinue its third-party fact-checking program, introduced in 2016 to combat misinformation, in favor of a system relying on user-generated notes to flag potentially false or misleading posts.
Zuckerberg shows his true pragmatic colours by changing Meta ahead of Trump 2.0
The first indication of Mark Zuckerberg's capitulation to the MAGA movement came when he went to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort for Thanksgiving in December.
Slow Ventures' Sam Lessin on Meta scrapping its fact-checking program: 'It's a great step'
Sam Lessin, general partner at Slow Ventures, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss Meta's decision to scrap its third-party fact-checking program and implement a "Community Notes" model, whether CEO Zuckerberg is liberal, and more.
Meta retreats from fact-checking content: what it means for businesses
The changes could make it easier for users to criticize brands or implicate them in conspiracies, and harder for brands to force takedowns.
Meta seeks to gain Trump's favor with policy and board changes, says Stifel
After Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video in which he announced several changes to take place across Meta regarding the company's free speech efforts and content moderation policies, Stifel called the replacement of fact-checkers with Community Notes the "most notable of these changes," adding that such a feature became widely popular on X/Twitter following Elon Musk's acquisition of the company in 2022. The policy changes along with three new board additions yesterday, including Trump ally and UFC CEO Dana White, represent the latest in a series of actions taken by Zuckerberg and the company "that we view as efforts to not only offer an environment we believe the majority of users desire, but also gain favor with the incoming Trump administration," according to the analyst, who keeps a Buy rating and $692 price target on Meta shares.
Meta abruptly ends US fact-checks ahead of Trump term
Social media giant Meta on Tuesday slashed its content moderation policies, including ending its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram, in a major shift that conforms with the priorities of incoming president Donald Trump.
