Facebook traffic appears to be a growing chunk of social referral traffic again at three-quarters of the world’s biggest news websites.| Press Gazette
The country’s future is being treated like a software update| The Walrus
Mark Zuckerberg also announced Meta would ease political-content restrictions.| Business Insider
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just made his social media network even more unsafe for LGBTQ people.| Erasing 76 Crimes
Today, the Oversight Board has published decisions for 11 cases based on user appeals from three continents. They are the first to reflect on the policy and| The Oversight Board
Today, we’re announcing new Threads features that help you shape and personalize your experience.| Meta Newsroom
Meta's had an eventful 2025, from overhauling its content moderation system, rolling back DEI, and announcing more layoffs. Here's what's still to come.| Business Insider
Following Mark Zuckerberg's annoucement that Meta will massively reduce content moderation in the USA we need to ensure that the UK safety standards in the Online Safety Act are enforced.| damiancollins.substack.com
Platform enforcement gaps, AI-generated spam, and foreign interference concerns converged during high-stakes political contest.| DFRLab
In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.| WIRED
Facebook is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a similar model used on Elon Musk’s X. Here’s what to know.| LiveNOW from FOX | Breaking News, Live Events
The Meta founder and CEO says "it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram."| Tech Policy Press
Who should decide what’s true online?| newpublic.substack.com
Election season continues to be a contentious time for digital platforms when it comes to content moderation.| Public Knowledge
Sollten Institutionen toxische Plattformen verlassen oder bleiben, um auch dort Präsenz zu zeigen? Eine Debatte über soziale Netzwerke und Kommunikationsgerechtigkeit.| TheoNet θ
On 7 January, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to content moderation and fact-checking across Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram and Threads – sparking widespread reaction and debate about the future of online discourse and the role of social networks in shaping global conversations.| NevilleHobson .com
The LA Fires and the Erosion of Truth| www.savvymatters.com
"Fact-checkers" as the high priests of journalism had a political beginning at Facebook — and have met a political end.| www.natesilver.net
Today Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is bending the knee to the incoming Trump administration, doing away with their third-party fact checking program which kept watch over misinformation on their platforms (to dubious success, admittedly). He claimed this announcement was about free expression, but make no mistake: this is about capitulating in advance to the demands of Trump and the far right, who have fought for years against any attempt to label their lies as misinformation.| dansinker.com
Mark Zuckerberg and company are ditching fact-checkers for community notes and other updates that reflect shifting U.S. politics.| Los Angeles Times
Mark Zuckerberg's latest announcement has shaken up social media in all the wrong ways. What a start to 2025. Trump is already threatening multiple nations with invasion and Musk is acting as his court jester, using X to poke at the snarling bears of European politics. Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly if| FORbetter
Discover the latest Instagram new features and updates designed to boost engagement and enhance your marketing strategy. Stay ahead with our in-depth guide!| EmbedSocial
Meta is Ending Third Party Fact Checkers: Why This Feels Problematic | Intro to Social Media
We've been discussing this a lot both within the team, and with our Patrons. Here's what Fosstodon will be doing about Threads federation.| hub.fosstodon.org
Meta is getting rid of fact checkers on Facebook & Instagram and loosening guidelines on Hateful Content. What do the changes mean for advertisers?| Basis Technologies
…and the enclosure of creative talent| www.horrific-terrific.tech
In the first week of 2025, Mark Zuckerberg has made a key announcement that Meta is overhauling its content moderation policies, getting rid of fact-checkers “to focus...on tackling illegal and high-severity violations,” continuing a dangerous trend by Big-tech to go for profit and populism in the name of free speech. Though the changes are starting| African Feminism (AF) - a pan-African feminists digital platform and collabor...
Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.| WIRED
The social media mogul said Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram will shift to a community notes model and "work with President Trump" to push back on governments going after U.S. companies.| The Hollywood Reporter
Ignite Visibility does a news roundup for you each Friday! We cover the latest updates in digital marketing.| Ignite Visibility
We're working to understand people's preferences for political content and find a better balance of content in News Feed.| Meta