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 ...

Meta Platforms announced an overhaul of its content moderation policies earlier this week. Chief among the changes is a move away from third-party fact-checking of user-posted content toward a ...

Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta—the company that owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, which collectively have a combined daily active user base of 3.3 billion—will be implementing sweeping ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of ...

Getting "Zucked" — a term for having your account suspended or content removed due to community violations — is a staple in ...

Meta did not want to mistakenly penalize top brands and risk advertising dollars, so it designated some advertisers as exempt from its content-moderation process to prevent its multibillion-dollar ad ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other services has announced it will discontinue its third-party factchecking programs, starting in the US. Journalists and anti-hate ...

Creators' reaction to Meta's content-moderation changes has largely fallen along political lines. Some influencers worry the changes could harm the LGBTQ+ community. Others questioned Meta's decision ...

Meta Platforms Inc. plans to make a set of sweeping changes to its fact-checking and content moderation policies, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced in a video released this morning. In 2016, ...

Meta implemented “guardrails” in 2023 that exempted high-spending advertisers from automatic content moderation, instead routing their content to human reviewers. This system was designed to prevent ...

Zuckerberg's free speech reforms at Meta spark advertiser concerns over harmful content and misinformation risks. Meta replaces Nick Clegg with Republican ally Joel Kaplan, alarming advertisers over ...