Meta’s official rationale for ending its independent factchecking in favour of crowdsourced contributions centres on ...

The only glimmer of hope is the intense backlash—both within Meta and from the broader public. “I’ve never felt so strongly ...

Big tech seems to be getting out of the censorship business, and it's about time. After years of increasingly awkward attempts to placate demands from ...

The UN rights chief declared that regulating online hate speech and harmful content is not censorship. Meta recently ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday will hold a hearing on the ban of TikTok, which carries implications on the global ...

The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content moderation on the eve of the second Trump ...

The changes he’s making to appease Donald Trump won’t fix the ways Facebook is harmful to our civic and political life.

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The full impact of Meta’s “community management” approach to moderation remains to be seen, but social media creators will ...

When fact-checkers turn into censors, a power shift had to happen. If you want to know who wields power in a society, there’s ...

The changes worry advocates for vulnerable groups, who say Meta's decision to scale back content moderation could lead to ...

What Fresh on the heels of Meta-formerly-Facebook issuing a sweeping — and in many ways, both inexplicable and all-around ...