Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Tuesday, January 7th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. Meta is completely revamping its fact-checking program going instead with a version of community notes. A new Tesla recall, but for a different reason, Dell is taking rebranding to new Google-like lows. All of the headlines from a jam-packed

Nvidia keynote and what about an AI co-pilot but for gaming? Here's what you miss today in the world of

tech. This morning, Mark Zuckerberg took to his personal accounts to announce that meta will restore, quote,

free expression on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with community

notes starting in the U.S. Meta will lift restrictions on, quote, topics that are part of

mainstream discourse like immigration or gender, and focus on, quote, illegal and high severity

violations instead. Community Notes is obviously a feature copied from X, quoting the official

meta announcement. We've seen this approach work on X, where they empower their community to

decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse

range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see, Meta said.

We think this could be a better way of achieving our original intention of providing people

with information about what they're seeing, and one that's less prone to bias.

These changes are an attempt to return to the commitment to free expression that

Mark Zuckerberg set out in his Georgetown speech, Meta said. That means being vigilant about the

impact our policies and systems are having on people's ability to make their voices heard and

having the humility to change our approach when we know we're getting things wrong, end quote.

And quoting Zuck himself, here's what we're going to do.

Number one, replace fact checkers with community notes starting in the U.S.

Number two, simplify our content policies and remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse.

Number three, change how we enforce our policies to remove the vast majority of censorship mistakes

by focusing our filters on tackling illegal and high-severity violations and requiring

higher confidence for our filters to take action. Number 4. Bring back civic content.

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