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Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
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David Gilbert / Wired:
Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased” — Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
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Bloomberg:
Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content” — - Meta CEO accused fact checkers of bias and destroying trust — Facebook and Instagram continue fact-checking outside US
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PolitiFact:
Neil Brown, president of PolitiFact's owner Poynter, said Zuckerberg's statement on fact checkers was “disappointing” and used “inflammatory and false language” — - NATIONAL - FACEBOOK FACT-CHECKS — Meta will end its eight-year partnership …
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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked — Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will phase “civic content” back in, seemingly a reversal of earlier decisions against proactively recommending political content
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Meta's Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression”, which “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on”
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations”
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New York Times:
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content”
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Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward:
Docs: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer Wikipedia editors who it says are “abusing their position” to publish antisemitic content — The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism
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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Piers Morgan and News UK strike a deal that gives him ownership of the Uncensored YouTube channel; News UK will get a share of ad revenue until 2029 — The outspoken broadcaster's production company is to take ownership of his Uncensored YouTube channel as part of a deal that will see it enter …
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Whatnot, which lets users sell comics and other items through live videos, raised a $265M Series E at a $4.97B valuation, and says its annual GMV passed $3B — Whatnot, the platform that allows users to sell items such as trading cards, comics, and sneakers through live videos …
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Elena Giordano / Politico:
Italy says Cecilia Sala, the journalist detained in Iran since 19 December, has been freed and is heading back to Italy — PM Giorgia Meloni has informed the reporter's family. — Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was locked up in Iran last month, has been freed and is on a plane that departed from Tehran on Wednesday.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X has hired John Stoll, a former WSJ editor and Detroit bureau chief, to lead its news group and partnership team at X, focusing on expanding news on X globally — X, formerly Twitter, wants to make its platform a home to the future and news and journalism.
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Memo: HuffPost expects “upwards of 30 editorial positions” will be cut in coming weeks, and management is talking with the HuffPost Union on how to proceed — news: HuffPost is cutting 30 positions. Memo from editor-in-chief Danielle C. Belton: [image]
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Peacock plans to pilot five mini-games and a short-form vertical video feed on its iOS and Android apps this month before a broader rollout later this spring — As Peacock continues to trail behind major players in the entertainment industry like Netflix, TikTok, and YouTube …
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