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12:55 PM ET, January 8, 2025

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Financial Times:
Internal 2023 docs: Meta exempted some top advertisers from its usual content moderation process amid concerns that its systems mistakenly penalised top brands  —  Social media giant's ‘guardrails’ intended to ‘protect high spenders’ amid internal concern its systems over-enforced rules
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Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post:
Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms do content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe  —  As platform scales back moderation in line with conservative demands in the U.S., it still has to maneuver through stiffer regulations in Europe and elsewhere.
Philip Blenkinsop / Reuters:
EU rejects Zuckerberg's claim that “Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship”, saying it only requires illegal content removal  —  The European Commission rejected on Wednesday Meta (META.O) chief Mark Zuckerberg's assertion that European Union …
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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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
PolitiFact:
Neil Brown, president of PolitiFact's owner Poynter, said Zuckerberg's statement on fact checkers was “disappointing” and used “inflammatory and false language”
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”
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”
Hadas Gold / CNN:
A book by a Politico reporter claims Trump's team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance; Fox is probing  —  New York CNN —  —  President-elect Donald Trump's team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall …
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
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 …
Michael Schneider / Variety:
The Daytime Emmys, which traditionally air in June, will shift to October this year, and the News & Documentary Emmys will move from the fall to June  —  The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences continue to realign the timing for some of its biggest shows.
Discussion: TVLine, Deadline and GoldDerby
Alicja Ptak / Notes From Poland:
A new English-language Polish film about Vladimir Putin, in which AI is used to superimpose his real face onto an actor, sparks a debate about the use of AI  —  A new English-language Polish film about Vladimir Putin, in which the Russian president is portrayed using AI-powered special effects …
Discussion: @Lazarou@mastodon.social and RADAR
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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