Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will cut back on its content moderation efforts and eliminate fact-checking in the US in favor of the more “democratic” approach that X ...

At the start of January, just as Donald Trump's inauguration was approaching, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta's third-party fact checkers had become too politically biased ...

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For example, a 2023 University of Cambridge ... and one that is evolving. Meta’s announcement to shift from professional factchecking to crowdsourced community moderation risks undermining this ...

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Instead, the company would embrace a community notes model where users could provide additional information on posts, which Meta argued would be “less ... known as “DEI” causing a plane crash, for ...

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