Mark Zuckerberg turned his back on the media
There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg did not consider the mainstream media as the enemy. He even allowed me, a card-carrying legacy media person, into his house. In April…
Xiaohongshu is struggling to hire English-speaking content moderators
Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu – known internationally as Rednote – is struggling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of US users. suddenly joined…
Many Metra employees won't have to move to Texas after all
Whether relocating teams to Texas would be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests that if someone in California displays any kind of political preference, moving them to…
The future of the internet is becoming bleak day by day
The moderation systems of both Meta and TikTok are far from perfect and constantly make mistakes. Earlier this week, Taylor Lorenz reported Meta banned queer content and hashtags deemed "sensitive…
X-ification of Meta wired
"Meta has always been home to Russian, Chinese and Iranian disinformation," claims Gordon Crovitz, co-CEO of NewsGuard, a company that provides a tool for evaluating the credibility of online information.…
No Fact-Checking More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA
since donald trump After winning back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley veterans are engaging in an inappropriate growl-fest, leading to Pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lagoshoveling million-dollar contribution…
No Fact-Checking More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA
since donald trump After winning back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley veterans are engaging in an inappropriate growl-fest, leading to Pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lagoshoveling million-dollar contribution…
Meta's fact-checking partners say they were 'blindsided' by decision to remove him
Meta's fact-checking partners claim they were "blindsided" by the company's decision Abandon third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads The community notes favor of the model, and some say they…
Meta Now tells users that gay and trans people have 'mental illness'
meta announced Today its content moderation policies included a series of major updates, including eliminating fact-checking partnership and "getting rid of" restrictions on speech about "topics like immigration, gender identity…
Meta removes fact-checkers before Trump's second term
Meta announced Tuesday that it is abandoning its third-party fact-checking programs on Facebook, Instagram and Threads and replacing its army of paid moderators with a community notes model that mimics…