The dynamics that polarize us on social media are about to get worse
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced big changes in how the company addresses misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Instead of relying on independent third-party ...
A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires
An initiative called Free Our Feeds, backed by the founder of Wikipedia, aims to protect the social media technology that ...
America Magazine5d
Facebook was right to ditch fact-checking—but it should learn from the limits of Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’
The previous fact-checking/moderation practices at both Meta and X were problematic and in need of an overhaul. The Community ...
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What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
On Joe Rogan’s podcast, Zuckerberg made it clear he was ready to do business: In his peculiar black T-shirt and gold chain — ...
‘Meta sees me as a golden goose.’ How Zuckerberg’s AI creations went rogue and gave the game away
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our ...
MIT Technology Review1d
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If you’ve heard of Bluesky, you’ve probably heard of it as a clone of Twitter where liberals can take refuge. But under the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency43mOpinion
Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately
The German-Jewish political theorist, who wrote about the uses of misinformation under totalitarian governments, is riding a ...
In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet
Over the past two decades, the free-to-use online encyclopedia has carried on with its mission, expanding its global ...
Free Our Feeds Aims to Decentralize Social Media With—or Instead of—Bluesky
The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in ...
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Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky
In a challenge to billionaire-controlled social media platforms, a group of nine less affluent technology leaders have formed ...