Content moderation has always been a nightmare for Meta. Its new content-moderation policy is a huge change — and it could be an improvement. Mark Zuckerberg's "apology tour" from the past few years ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: So are you aware that there's this trend at the new year where ...

Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “societal and political pressure to moderate content”, social media users have questioned the value of ...

This is a bad moment for fact-checking. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which targets social media ...

Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails that it had put in place over several years, in ...

Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...

Meta has published the first of its quarterly integrity reports since Mark Zuckerberg walked back the company's hate speech policies and changed its approach to content moderation earlier this year.

True, Aristotle’s extolling of moderation has survived the millennia. But that "Golden Mean" seems to be outweighed today by a preference for extremism—yes, political but also otherwise. As a small ...