Ex-Facebook Director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content”
and Mine, The Audacity of Copying Well Sean Burch / The Wrap : Meta Pivots Away From Protections, Guardrails as Trump 2.0 Looms Mat Smith / Engadget : The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking for Facebook and Instagram Politico : Zuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program Louis Regan / The Sun : Martin Lewis warns Facebook & Instagram users over scam as Mark Zuckerberg plans to end ‘biased’ fact-checks Ali Lyon / City A.M. : Meta oversight co-chair: ‘Huge problems’ with Zuckerberg changes Filio Kontrafouri / GreekReporter.com : Meta Gets Rid of Fact-Checkers on Facebook and Instagram Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Zuckerberg's free speech push for Facebook and Instagram replaces fact checkers with community notes AlgorithmWatch : Zuckerberg Makes Meta Worse to Please Trump Business Plus : Facebook to follow X's lead as it discontinues use of fact-checkers Jorge Bonilla / Newsbusters : The Regime Media MOURN Meta's Elimination of ‘Fact-Checkers’ Scott Rosenberg / Axios : Zuckerberg and Meta say good riddance to fact-checking Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : Zuckerberg Axes Facebook Fact-Checkers, Claims ‘Censorship’ Patrick West / Spectator : Facebook is no place for politics 6abc : Meta is changing how content is managed on Facebook, Instagram, Threads Ellise Shafer / Variety : Meta to Drop Fact-Checking Program Because It's ‘Too Politically Biased,’ Adds Community Notes on Facebook and Instagram Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast : Zuckerberg Turns Facebook Full MAGA and Smears California Staff Michelle Quinn / Voice of America : Meta to offer wider range of speech on platforms, CEO says The North West Star : Meta shelves US fact checking in major policy reversal Susan Ferrechio / Washington Times : Mark Zuckerberg rolls back Meta censorship ahead of Donald Trump's return to White House Nathan Drescher / Android Police : Meta just ditched fact-checking for community notes in a free speech push Sebastian Pier / PhoneArena : Zuck admits Facebook has been “censoring too much” and ends fact-checking practices William Gavin / Quartz : Meta is giving up on fact-checking and doing it Elon Musk-style Dave Parrack / MakeUseOf : Facebook Will No Longer Fact-Check Your Dumb Posts Forums: r/czech : Zuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program. The content moderation changes won't be rolled out in the EU for now. … See also Mediagazer