The Dynamics That Polarise Us On Social Media Are About To Get A Lot Worse
Mark Zuckerberg has announced big changes in how the company addresses misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
‘Free Our Feeds’ campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky’s tech
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create ...
A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires
An initiative called Free Our Feeds, backed by the founder of Wikipedia, aims to protect the social media technology that ...
America Magazine6d
Facebook was right to ditch fact-checking—but it should learn from the limits of Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’
The previous fact-checking/moderation practices at both Meta and X were problematic and in need of an overhaul. The Community ...
Intelligencer on MSN4d
What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
On Joe Rogan’s podcast, Zuckerberg made it clear he was ready to do business: In his peculiar black T-shirt and gold chain — ...
Hollywood stars and top technologists want to billionaire-proof social media using Bluesky’s protocol
The likes of Mark Ruffalo and Jimmy Wales are backing the Free Our Feeds project, to ensure Bluesky's tech will thrive even ...
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Publicly Funded Social Media Roads; Good SSPs Get Treats
Would the internet be a better place if it weren’t run by billionaires? Plus, more brands are cutting out the ad tech ...
‘Meta sees me as a golden goose.’ How Zuckerberg’s AI creations went rogue and gave the game away
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our ...
New York Magazine4d
What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
There is little to Mark Zuckerberg beyond the desire to make ... equivalent to a quick-hit Wikipedia that performs the truth-telling task adequately. More important, news organizations can ...
MIT Technology Review2d
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If you’ve heard of Bluesky, you’ve probably heard of it as a clone of Twitter where liberals can take refuge. But under the ...