Content moderation has always been a nightmare for Meta. Its new content-moderation policy is a huge change — and it could be an improvement. Mark Zuckerberg's "apology tour" from the past few years ...

UNITED STATES - March 25: A cardboard cutout of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, dressed up as the QAnon Shaman, along with other cutouts of people involved in the Capitol insurrection, stand on the ...

There is little to Mark Zuckerberg beyond the desire to make money. Values have been grafted onto him over the decades, and he has espoused various opinions to appease whomever holds power at a ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday the company — which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — will end its fact-checking program and overhaul its policies to favor free speech over strict ...

Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...

LOS ANGELES—During the first stop of her First Amendment Tour outside of Washington, FCC commissioner Anna Gomez spoke out against attempts by the agency and Trump administration to chill dissent, ...

Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “societal and political pressure to moderate content”, social media users have questioned the value of ...

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This is a bad moment for fact-checking. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which targets social media ...

While major social-media platforms like X and Meta have slackened content-moderation efforts and slashed third-party fact-checking, up-and-coming microblogging app Bluesky amplified its efforts in ...