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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Meta revamping its content moderation systems with Community Notes is good, but Zuckerberg pretending it's about free speech is bad, and the timing is stupid — When the NY Times declared in September that “Mark Zuckerberg is Done With Politics,” it was obvious this framing was utter nonsense.
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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”
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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
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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”
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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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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.
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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Meta will launch a test in Germany, France and the US to publish eBay listings on Facebook Marketplace, after it was fined €798M by EU for abusing dominance — - Company was fined €798 million by EU for abusing dominance — Meta still challenging landmark fine through EU courts
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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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Pranav Dixit / Business Insider:
Audio: Meta told the International Fact-Checking Network that its US partnerships will end in March but Community Notes rollout is expected to take time — - Meta plans to end US fact-checking partnerships in March, with payments to continue through August.
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Source: during a town hall meeting, CNN CEO Mark Thompson said CNN received an investment of “more than $70M” from WBD to invest in the company's digital pivot — scoop: During a town hall meeting today, CNN C.E.O. Mark Thompson said that CNN has received an investment of “more than $70 million” to invest in the company's digital pivot
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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 …
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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.
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