Meta’s chief executive has become a more visible presence in Washington since President Trump’s return to office after years of avoiding politics.
Former president Joe Biden once suggested that misinformation is “killing people.” As far back as the 2016 election, exposure to online content didn’t appear to affect elections as much as had been thought.
Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.
In Trump’s first term, Meta quietly introduced a slew of Republican-friendly changes. But led by Joel Kaplan, the company is done playing both sides and is going all-in on MAGA.
Meta Platforms isn’t backing down in the artificial intelligence arms race. The company is all in. On Friday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is planning to invest $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures this year while growing the size of the company’s AI teams “significantly.
A photo of Mark Zuckerberg from President Donald Trump 's inauguration ceremony went viral on Monday, January 20. In the picture, the 40-year-old Meta CEO appeared to be looking down the shirt of reporter Lauren Sanchez. But in spite of any controversy, the tech mogul is not distancing himself from the fiancée of Jeff Bezos.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has once again been called out for enjoying an eyeful of Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez — barely 24 hours after he was caught on camera apparently gawking ...
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and other prominent tech leaders attended Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration at St. John’s Church in Washington. The event saw a significant ...
Just a few weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg made a big announcement about shifting content moderation on Meta platforms — he’s getting rid of fact-checking in favor of crowdsourced community notes, and his new terms of service allow a whole lot of bigoted and transphobic content that used to be at least nominally against the rules.
Well, the truth and how to moderate it online, and specifically how Mark Zuckerberg is thinking about it is what we are here to examine. So I hope the two of you have some time on your hands. Zoë Schiffer: Let's do it.
The three wealthiest Americans, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, sat together Monday at the second inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Against Platforms,' a book by technologist Mike Pepi, explores the hidden ideologies of social apps that aligned Silicon Valley with Donald Trump.