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19 Jan

It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too

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TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.Shortly before the federally mandated January 19 deadline, TikTok cut off access to anyone attempting to access the app from the US. "A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the US. Unfortunately, that means you can't use the TikTok app for now,” reads a block-screen confronting US users when they attempt to load the app. “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok…

17 Jan

Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media

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There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg didn’t regard mainstream media as the enemy. He even allowed me, a card-carrying legacy media person, into his home. In April 2018, I ventured there to hear his plans to do the right thing. It was part of my years-long embed into Facebook to write a book. For the past two years, Zuckerberg’s company had been roundly criticized for its failure to rein in disinformation and hate speech. Now the young founder had a plan to address this.Part of the solution, he told me, was more content moderation. He was going to hire…

17 Jan

Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire Content Moderators Who Can Speak English

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The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform in anticipation of TikTok potentially being banned in the United States on Sunday.WIRED identified a handful of job listings posted to recruitment platforms by tech outsourcing companies in China this week looking for content moderators who can help manage the unexpected influx of English videos and posts being uploaded to Xiaohongshu. There were also several new recruitment notices posted urgently looking for content moderators who can work in Chinese, the…

15 Jan

Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All

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Whether shifting teams to Texas will be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests if a person in California exhibits some sort of political preference, moving them to Texas isn’t likely to reshape their viewpoints immediately.In the same town hall call, company leadership described the Texas relocation as an attempt to address the perception problem with California. That reasoning frustrated employees, who believe Meta is harming its workforce to appease Trump, the three staffers told WIRED. Meta and Trump remain in litigation in a northern California federal court over the temporary suspension of his account following the January…

08 Jan

No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA

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Since Donald Trump won back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries have been engaging in an unseemly grovel-fest, making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago, shoveling million-dollar contributions to his inaugural fund, and meddling in the editorial departments of the publications they own in an apparent attempt to gain the new leader’s favor. Yesterday, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “hold my beer.”In a five-minute Instagram video, rocking his new curly hairdo and a $900,000 Gruebal Forsey watch, Zuckerberg announced a series of drastic policy changes that could open the floodgates of misinformation and hate speech on…

08 Jan

The X-ification of Meta

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“Meta has perennially been a home for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian disinformation,” claims Gordon Crovitz, co-CEO of NewsGuard, a company that provides a tool to evaluate the trustworthiness of online information. “Now, Meta apparently has decided to open the floodgates completely."Again, fact-checking isn’t perfect; Croviz says that NewsGuard has tracked several “false narratives” on Meta’s platforms already. And the community notes model with which Meta will replace its fact-checking battalions can still be somewhat effective. But research from Mahavedan and others has shown that crowdsourced solutions miss vast swaths of misinformation. And unless Meta commits to maximal transparency in how…

08 Jan

No Fact-Checking and More Hate Speech: Meta Goes MAGA

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Since Donald Trump won back the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries have been engaging in an unseemly grovel-fest, making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago, shoveling million-dollar contributions to his inaugural fund, and meddling in the editorial departments of the publications they own in an apparent attempt to gain the new leader’s favor. Yesterday, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “hold my beer.”In a five-minute Instagram video, rocking his new curly hairdo and a $900,000 Gruebal Forsey watch, Zuckerberg announced a series of drastic policy changes that could open the floodgates of misinformation and hate speech on…

07 Jan

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

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Meta’s fact-checking partners claim they were “blindsided” by the company’s decision to abandon third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in favor of a Community Notes model, and some say they are now scrambling to figure out if they can survive the hole this leaves in their funding.“We heard the news just like everyone else,” says Alan Duke, cofounder and editor in chief of fact-checking site Lead Stories, which started working with Meta in 2019. “No advance notice.”The news that Meta was no longer planning on using their services was announced in a blog post by chief global affairs officer…

07 Jan

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

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Meta announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policies today, including that it’s “getting rid” of restrictions on speech about “topics like immigration, gender identity and gender” that the company describes as frequent subjects of political discourse and debate. “It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly-appointed chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.In an accompanying video, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the company’s current rules in these areas as “just out of touch with mainstream…

07 Jan

Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump’s Second Term

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Facebook has already contributed to the demise of journalism and this will be the final nail in the coffin,” Nina Jankowicz, the former Biden administration disinformation czar who is now CEO of the American Sunlight Project, said in an emailed statement. “Newsrooms get grants from Facebook to provide fact-checks. That money allows them to do other journalism. Zuckerberg’s announcement is a full bending of the knee to Trump and an attempt to catch up to Musk in his race to the bottom. Fact-checking was not a panacea to disinformation on Facebook but it was an important part of moderation.”In what…