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The End of Facebook’s Content Moderation Era


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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that Facebook, Instagram and Threads would dramatically dial back content moderation and end fact checking. WSJ’s Jeff Horwitz explains what that means for the social media giant.


Further Reading:

-Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down 

-Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch 


Further listening:

-Meta Is Struggling to Boot Pedophiles Off Facebook and Instagram 

-Is Fighting Misinformation Censorship? The Supreme Court Will Decide. 

-The Facebook Files 


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