The Meta CEO announced changes to content moderation just in time for a familiar incoming presidential administration.

Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.

Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will now let users call gay people “mentally ill,” describe women as property and refer to transgender people as “it.” In an apparent attempt to curry favor with President-elect Donald Trump,

O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.

Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg recently announced changes to content moderation on Facebook and Instagram long sought by conservatives.

The decision of a tech giant that owns popular social media platforms to end partnership deals with fact-checking groups threatens a surge of fake news and disinformation, say activists in the Philippines.

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But it took days before their mistake or malice was reversed, by which time the damage was done and the story was read by fewer people than it would have been. Zuckerberg conceded, “A program intended to inform often became a tool to censor. … Too much harmless content gets censored, too many people find themselves wrongly locked” out.