I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, the X-like social media site owned by Meta.
Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan.
Meta is to scrap independent fact-checking in favour of a system similar to that on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
Content moderation has always been a pit of despair for Meta. And now, Mark Zuckerberg's "apology tour" seems to be officially over.
Meta’s chief executive has stepped away from his mea culpa approach to issues on his platforms and has told people that he wants to return to his original thinking on free speech.
The incoming administration was reportedly tipped off about the video, which can be understood as a Facebook-style targeted ad with an audience of one: Donald Trump, who has previously suggested that Mark “Zuckerschmuck” should be in jail,
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has defended the company’s sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, which include scrapping its U.S. fact-checking program and reducing curbs on contentious topics like immigration and gender identity.
The late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan put it this way decades ago: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Meta will remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender on its platforms, citing 'recent elections' as a catalyst
Mark Zuckerberg has decided now is the time for Meta to ditch its independent fact-checkers as misinformation becomes more commonplace.