Will another social media platform be able to replicate TikTok's 'special sauce?'
Where will TikTok refugees go if the social media platform is banned?
Jan 16, 2025
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Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing: Competing approaches in fight against misinformation
Meta's decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions. But taken at face value, the changes raise ...
Jan 15, 2025
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US Supreme Court weighs Texas age-check for porn sites
The US Supreme Court grappled with a challenge on Wednesday to a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors' ages, part of a growing effort to limit access by minors to online sexual content.
Jan 15, 2025
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Meta's fact-checking and diversity rollbacks represent 'dangerous retreat' from corporate responsibility
Meta, the corporation that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it not only plans to replace its professional fact-checking system with user-contribution, but also cut down on many of its diversity schemes ...
Jan 15, 2025
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A possible TikTok ban is just days away. A list of similar apps available
With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form ...
Jan 14, 2025
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How Britain got its first internet connection
British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was commissioned by then Conversation ...
Jan 13, 2025
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Meta abandons racial diversity programs in further right-wing shift
Social media giant Meta announced Friday it is dismantling its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs across the company, marking another major shift in strategy as it aligns with politically conservative priorities.
Jan 11, 2025
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'Real-world harm' if Meta ends fact-checks, global network warns
There will be "real-world harm" if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg's claim such moderation amounts to censorship.
Jan 10, 2025
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Zuckerberg's censorship claim 'false': International Fact-Checking Network
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's claim that the fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram has veered into censorship is "false", the International Fact-Checking Network said Thursday.
Jan 10, 2025
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How Meta's fact-checking program works
Internet giant Meta's fact-checking program aims to counter false information on its social platforms—Facebook, Instagram and Threads—with the help of media organizations, including AFP.
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