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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‘One of the Faces of Jan. 6’

‘One of the Faces of Jan. 6’

The photograph was an immediate symbol of Jan. 6, 2021: a man in bluejeans and a thick plaid overshirt reclining in the chambers of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a smile on his face and his boot resting atop a black spiral notebook on a corner of a desk. The smirk and the lug-soled boot belonged…

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Golden Globes Stars Avoided Politics

Golden Globes Stars Avoided Politics

Hollywood hoisted a white flag in the culture war on Sunday. That summation of the 82nd Golden Globe Awards will undoubtedly aggravate some people in the movie capital. Us? Conceding the moral high ground to President-elect Donald J. Trump and his supporters? Never. They could point — fairly — to the movies that won prizes…

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In Reversal, Musk Disparages Farage

In Reversal, Musk Disparages Farage

It was an abrupt turnabout, even for the easy-come, easy-go nature of alliances in President-elect Donald J. Trump’s political orbit. For weeks, Elon Musk, Mr. Trump’s billionaire backer, had wrapped his arms around the British populist politician, Nigel Farage, promoting his insurgent, anti-immigrant party, Reform U.K., as the answer to Britain’s problems. But on Sunday,…

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