How Meta’s Free-Speech Turn Is Shaking Up the Ad Business
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Are you a smart booker or a silly booker? |
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| 0:26.4 | at all protected. |
| 0:29.7 | On the beach. |
| 0:35.5 | Welcome to Tech News briefing. |
| 0:37.4 | It's Tuesday, February 4th. I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.0 | For the better part of a decade, META's relationship with possible advertisers was based on its efforts to combat hate speech and misinformation on its social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram. |
| 0:50.7 | But a new cultural moment has arrived, punctuated by President Trump's return to the White House, |
| 0:55.8 | and META's executives have a different message. |
| 0:58.4 | Some things we used to remove will now be allowed, and that has some advertisers concerned. |
| 1:04.4 | Advertising and marketing industries reporter Suzanne Vernica tells us there's a big shake-up |
| 1:08.6 | in the relationship between social media giants and Madison Avenue, the center of the U.S.'s advertising industry. |
| 1:18.9 | So, Suzanne, what's changed over at META, both concretely and in its messaging? |
| 1:23.7 | What META announced recently was they basically made this big pivot. |
| 1:28.3 | They have decided to eliminate U.S.-based fact checkers, and they're going to replace them with community notes. |
| 1:34.3 | Think of what happens on X. |
| 1:35.7 | That's a crowdsourcing system that basically allows users to flag posts that they think needs more context. |
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