Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?
Meta is joining X and YouTube in shifting moderation to users. Are you ready?
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The Guardian view on content moderation: Meta did far too little. Now it wants to do even less | Editorial
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Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term
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Meta announces major changes in fact checking and content moderation
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Meta's moderation rollback sparks celebration and despair
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Meta Drops Rules Protecting LGBTQ Community as Part of Content Moderation Overhaul
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Do Facts Meta on Facebook?
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Facebook and Instagram get rid of fact checkers
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Meta shuts down its AI character accounts that users called 'creepy and unnecessary'
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Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
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A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead
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Apple to pay $95m to settle claims Siri listened to users’ private conversations
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