‘The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is Done

‘The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is Done

For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme: that institutions at the heart of American intellectual life, like the mainstream media and academia, have been overrun by progressive groupthink and need to be dissolved. He believes that government bureaucracy…

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Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?

Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?

Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker — the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn others about misleading content. It’s you. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, announced Tuesday that he was ending much of the company’s moderation efforts, like third-party fact-checking and content restrictions. Instead, he said, the company will…

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Meta Reveals Plan to Alter Fact-Checking Program

Meta Reveals Plan to Alter Fact-Checking Program

Meta on Tuesday announced a set of changes to its content moderation practices that would effectively put an end to its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps. Instead of using news organizations and other third-party groups, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will…

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