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Today in Focus

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Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Factchecker Jesse Stiller and technology journalist Chris Stokel-Walker explore why Mark Zuckerberg has announced dramatic changes to Meta’s social platforms, and what they will mean for their 3.3 billion users. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:07.2

Today, what Facebook and Instagram might look like without fact-checkers from a fact-checker

0:13.4

himself.

0:18.0

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0:21.6

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1:12.3

Agent Force, what AI was meant to be.

1:25.8

It's been a big few days for Mark Zuckerberg.

1:29.0

Hey everyone. I want to talk about something important today, because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.

1:37.2

I started building social media to give people a voice.

1:40.6

His surprise announcement last week that his company meta was overhauling content moderation,

1:46.5

what you can and can't say on its platforms, pushing politics higher up into our feeds

1:51.7

and getting rid of fact-checking, kicked off a big few days for Jesse Stiller too.

1:58.0

Let me give you kind of an idea of how much of a wood blast this was.

2:04.5

So Monday night, I had no idea that this was even being discussed.

2:08.4

I had just gotten off a team meeting with my bosses and the prospects for 2025 for Check

2:15.5

Your Fact were looking very great.

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