The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul
Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.
Advertisers say Meta's content-moderation changes make them uneasy. They won't stop spending.
Meta's content-moderation changes have sparked concerns over its brand-safety commitments, but advertisers are unlikely to pull spending.
Meta drops fact-checking, loosens its content moderation rules
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails
Analysis: Meta's content moderation was a failed experiment
Zuckerberg’s blunt reversal this week puts an end to the era of corporate content moderation. Whether you view it as idealistic or sinister, content moderation has now ended as a failed experiment — even by its own terms.
Business leaders and lawmakers react to Meta's content moderation changes
Several lawmakers told BI that Meta's content moderation overhaul is a bad sign and an indication CEO Mark Zuckerberg is kowtowing to Donald Trump.
Explainer: Will Meta’s scrapping content moderation turn businesses away from its platforms?
Meta's reversal of its content moderation efforts of the past few years is set to create a seismic shift within the social media industry.
Meta announces broad changes to fact-checking, content moderation policies
The third set of policy changes the company announced today focuses on its automated moderation systems. Meta uses them to remove content that breaches its terms of service. The company intends to narrow the systems’ focus to “high-severity violations” such as posts that promote illegal activities.
Meta crowdsources content moderation – what are the legal implications?
The implications of yesterday’s announcement by Mark Zuckerberg of the reintroduction of political content onto Meta platforms, and the crowdsourcing of content moderation to users in the form of community notes along with the removal of fact checkers from the business, are still being reckoned with.
Meta announces major changes in fact checking and content moderation
Meta, the parent of Facebook, said it will eliminate traditional fact-checking and will rely instead on community notes. The move was part of a pivot to a new emphasis on free speech. Meta will also allow more politics to enter users' feeds.
Meta Drops Rules Protecting L.G.B.T.Q. Community as Part of Content Moderation Overhaul
The changes included allowing users to share “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”
Meta makes major changes to moderation policies
Meta will be making major changes to its content moderation policy on Facebook and Instagram, getting rid of fact checkers and replacing them with user-generated “community notes,” similar to Elon Musk’s X,
Mark Zuckerberg's content-moderation changes come after a long line of nightmares
Content moderation has always been a nightmare for Meta. But Mark Zuckerberg's "apology tour" from the past few years seems ...
Meta's moderation rollback sparks celebration and despair
Some Republicans celebrated the move which they framed as a result of their war against social media censorship.
Meta to phase back in political content on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
As part of a significant overhaul of its content moderation policies announced on Tuesday, Meta admitted that its approach to ...
Meta's moderation shake-up highlights a political divide among influencers
As Mark Zuckerberg pulls back on Meta's content moderation in the name of free speech, some creators have concerns.
Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down
Social-media companies never wanted to aggressively police content on their platforms. Now, they are deciding they don’t have ...
Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X's
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of major changes to the company's moderation policies and practices, saying the ...
How Mark Zuckerberg pivoted Meta to the right
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that he was ending professional fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram.