Content moderation changes at Meta.
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will end its fact-checking program across Instagram, Facebook and Threads, instead instituting a feature similar to X’s “Community Notes,” which crowdsources content reviews. The company will also relax limitations on controversial topics, like immigration and gender identity, and will allow for more political content to appear on users’ feeds. Furthermore, Zuckerberg announced that Meta will work with President-elect Donald Trump to combat censorship across the world.
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| 1:37.8 | It is Wednesday, January 8th, and today we are going to be talking about Facebook's moderation changes, the abandonment of its fact-checking program across Instagram, Facebook, and threads, |
| 1:45.8 | and their decision to institute a feature similar to community notes on X. |
| 1:50.4 | A pretty interesting story. |
| 1:51.8 | A lot going on here, especially politically. |
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