The Meta CEO announced changes to content moderation just in time for a familiar incoming presidential administration.
A post shared on Facebook claims Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired Boeing. Verdict: False There is no evidence to suggest Musk has acquired Boeing. Fact Check: Several universities in the U.K. are scaling back use of the social platform X,
In a speech to the Oxford Farming Conference on Thursday, Steve Reed, UK government minister, announced that secondary legislation required to give force to 2023’s Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act would be introduced to parliament by the end of March.
A headline saying that tech billionaire Elon Musk had just bought Boeing spread online in December along with other false claims following the Nov. 5 U.S. election saying that Musk, a supporter of President-elect Donald Trump,
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to that of Elon Musk's X.
It’s also the latest indication that Zuckerberg is trying to buddy up to incoming president Donald Trump, and is in that respect becoming more like Trump’s current right-hand man in tech: Elon Musk.
Donald Trump gloated that the Americans “don’t need anything” from Canada, even as the Canadian government sent firefighters and supplies in response to the devastating wildfires in California.
A video shared on Facebook purports to show a robot cutting Tesla CEO and owner of X, Elon Musk’s hair. Screenshot captured via Facebook Verdict: False An artificial intelligence (AI) expert denied the video’s authenticity in an email to Check Your Fact.
O n Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media behemoth will end its third party fact-checking program in the U.S. and instead adopt a crowd-sourced “community notes” program. The inspiration for such a decision? Elon Musk’s X.
Here’s the name of every Democratic senator who voted to advance the Laken Riley Act. The bill still needs one final vote.
Instead, Meta will follow the lead of X under Elon Musk and rely on crowd-sourced Community Notes to provide additional context on posts. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with David Gilbert, a reporter at Wired who covers online disinformation and extremism, to learn more about Meta’s latest pivot.