Fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul

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.
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.
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 employees are opposing content moderation policy changes: Here's why
The discontent arises from recent changes in content moderation policies that some employees feel undermine LGBTQ+ rights. The updated policy permits users to label LGBTQ+ individuals as "mentally ill," a move that has triggered outrage among staffers.
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
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.”
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.
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 Replaces Fact-Checkers with Content Moderators
The social networking technology giant will stop utilizing third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users
Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
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Mark Zuckerberg's content-moderation changes come after a long line of nightmares
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Instagram and Threads will now recommend political content
In a move users are calling "embarrassing" and lacking "courage," Instagram and Threads head Adam Mosseri announced that the ...
EU races to conclude investigation into X’s content moderation efforts
The European Union is reportedly close to deciding whether X’s attempts to combat illegal or harmful content are compliant ...
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed Facebook and Instagram into a new era when he announced that they would follow in the ...
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Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984"
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Mark Zuckerberg’s U-turn on fact-checking is craven—but correct
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Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that he thinks Trump will protect American companies' 'strategic advantage'
On a nearly three-hour episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, Zuckerberg signaled optimism about what a Trump presidency means for tech businesses.