Meta execs meet advertisers to discuss changes in content policies, including removal of third-party fact-checkers.
Meta launches ads on Threads, its X/Twitter competitor with 300 million users.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum recently, Meta’s head of the global business group explained how the firm was in contact with
In a Davos roundtable discussion with BI, Nicola Mendelsohn, the head of Meta's global business group, said the company had been speaking with advertisers in recent days and trying to reassure them that nothing will change. Mendelsohn said advertisers would still be able to stop ads appearing next to political content if they wish.
Indian fact-checking organisations working with Meta Platforms, Inc. receive temporary reprieve as Facebook delays replacing them on services.
Europe should take greater risks and plough more money into artificial intelligence, Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told AFP at the World Economic Forum. LeCun pointed to Meta's plans to invest around $60 billion this year,
Meta will be replacing third-party fact checkers in the US with a community notes system. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Social media giant Meta is planning to keep its fact-checking program outside the US for the time being. This could also have to do with legal hurdles.
Meta’s Community Notes transition in the US had set off alarm bells for fact-checking organisations in India and elsewhere.
Venture capitalist and early Facebook investor Jim Breyer said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been energized by his company’s recent push into AI.
Meta will continue to use its fact checkers outside of the U.S. “for now,” and plans to see how its Community Notes system works in the U.S.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says the Trump administration should make cybersecurity defenses mission critical.