Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg hosting reception for Trump
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg is co-hosting a black tie reception Jan. 20 after President-elect Trump’s inauguration to celebrate the Republican’s win.
By Ashely Fields
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Prominent Bay Area lawyer skewers Mark Zuckerberg, fires Meta as a client
The Stanford professor said he refuses to be associated with Zuckerberg and Meta, given the company’s new content and workplace policies
By Stephen Council, Tech Reporter
Friday, January 10, 2025
Meta Ends Fact Checking
Kara Swisher and Professor Scott Galloway (aka Prof. G) discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Meta will end fact checking, and, no surprise, Kara has some particularly colorful words for the Facebook founder.
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.
By Sam Biddle.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Zuck to America: Texas Less Biased Than My Professional Fact Checkers
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that its social media platforms — Facebook, Instagram and Threads — will stop using third-party fact-checkers and rely solely on its users to flag misinformation.
Mike Isaac, New York Times reporter covering tech companies and Silicon Valley, explains why the company is repositioning its policy and how that may favor President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration. Plus, Yael Eisenstat senior fellow at Cybersecurity for Democracy and former global head of Elections Integrity Ops for political advertising at Facebook discusses her time at Facebook in 2018 as the head of global elections integrity for political ads and what this new move could mean for the company’s ability to meet its responsibility to secure elections.
Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Rants at Presser Show Things Will Get Very Bad
At a press conference on Tuesday, Donald Trump signaled that things are about to get very, very ugly. He wouldn’t rule out using military force to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal. He celebrated the idea that his threats to jail Mark Zuckerberg might have caused Zuckerberg to surrender to him. And Trump vowed to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. We talked to Jennifer Mercieca, a professor of rhetoric who writes about fascist tropes. She explains how Trump is attempting to acclimate Americans to expansionist nationalism and naked threats to jail people without cause to force them into line, and why that bodes so badly about what’s coming.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Fact-Checking Announcement Is Worse Than You Think
Meta’s return to political content, looser moderation rules, and Trump-friendly policies look a lot like Musk’s vision for X.
By Nitish Pahwa
On Tuesday—the fourth anniversary of the day Meta implemented its two-year suspension on then-President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts following the 2021 Capitol insurrection—Mark Zuckerberg posted a five-minute vertical video in which he heralded a significant vibe shift on those very platforms. The curly-haired Meta CEO, rocking his gold chain and $900,000 watch, decried “governments and legacy media” that, he claimed, “pushed to censor more and more” for “clearly political” reasons. Continuing his streak of Muskian language, Zuckerberg then claimed Meta would go back to its “roots” of giving users a “voice” and embrace the “cultural tipping point toward once again prioritizing speech” supposedly ushered in by Trump’s reelection. (Sure, as studies have shown, Meta fact-checked conservatives more—because conservative users spread most of the misleading information on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and do so most often.)
Read the full article at slate.com.