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| Bruna Horvath / NBC News: |
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning. — Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
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Bluesky: @katestarbird, @dgrand, @evelyndouek, @rmac, @realworldrj, @stribs, @nikenberger, @steverathje, @aiannucci, @patrickhowelloneill.com, @juddlegum, @tiredgenerally, @pippacrerar, @katestarbird, @mmasnick, @stephenburtch, @caseynewton, @quinnypig.com, @cameronwilson, @evelyndouek, @billkristolbulwark, @amyhoy, @jeffjarvis, @issielapowsky, @evelyndouek, @mmasnick, @katestarbird, @rmac, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @yoyoel.com, @justinschuh.com, @davekarpf, @lionelgeek, @jaydolan, @justinschuh.com, @anildash.com, @noupside, and @moonalice.com
Mastodon: @7sleepersmusic@mastodon …, @stroughtonsmith …, @bendrath@eupolicy.social, @evacide@hachyderm.io, @gleick@mas.to, @rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol, and @kevinrothrock@infosec …
Threads: @zuck, @zuck, @moskov, @brandeebarker, @moskov, @vishwanathsarangkeller, @beltzner, @tanis_em, @katienotopoulos, @dens, @photomatt, @karaswisher, @florent.joly, @gwhitta, @wongmjane, @documentingmeta, @kurtwag8, @mcuban, @guillecummings, @davmicrot, @drewpusateri, @renee.diresta, @florent.joly, @florent.joly, @mergesort, @davmicrot, @sung.kim.mw, @ianbetteridge, and @dsilverman. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
X: @elonmusk, @jason, @jim_jordan, @drjessmaddox, @brendancarrfcc, @tobi, @jason, @tomwarren, @tomcoates, @austen, @brianstelter, @johnbiggs, @nikitabier, @antoniogm, @markpinc, @wexler, @ajs, @esthercrawford, @waitbutwhy, @brianstelter, @jamesrbuk, @mikebutcher, @rihardjarc, @adrianweckler, @teroterotero, @apompliano, @antoniogm, @dhh, @eoghan, @mgeist, @danprimack, @basedbeffjezos, @sarafischer, @oversightboard, @prem_thakker, @antoniogm, @hadas_gold, @kylascan, @emollick, @nkulw, @lindayax, @benthompson, and @ericnewcomer
LinkedIn: Richard Huntington, Alessandro Accorsi, Niall Breslin, Max Schrems, Matt Snodgrass, Ha Phan, Tonya McKenzie, Viv Conway, and Guido Palazzo
| Fox News: |
Donald Trump says Meta has “come a long way” after the company announced it will end its fact-checking program, and that Meta's “presentation was excellent” — EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump reacted to Meta's move to end its fact-checking program on Facebook …
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Bluesky: @sambiddle.com, @donmoyn, @talibkweli, and @futbolsound
| David Gilbert / Wired: |
Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased” — Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
More: The Verge, NBC News, Associated Press, Business Insider, Tampa Bay Times, HotAir, Out Magazine, WinBuzzer, and AV Club
Bluesky: @davidgilbert, @katestarbird, @dell, @bevymart, and @couts. Threads: @matthewfacciani. X: @pranavdixit
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| New York Times: |
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content” — The move will end a third-party fact-checking system and rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts.
More: New York Times, Wired, The Hollywood Reporter, Crikey, Werd I/O, kottke.org, Mock Paper Scissors, Northeastern Global News, Ordinary Times, Gizmodo, Entrepreneur, The Forward, and ZeroHedge News
Bluesky: @cameronwilson, @milesklee, @daveminca, @thebhp, @juddlegum, @werd.io, @technursejon, @berniemichalik.ca, @biwabankster, @bjetter, @selviano, and @peterdeep.com
Mastodon: @kubikpixel@chaos.social and @stuntbox@mastodon.social
Threads: @zuck, @hi.im.vijay, @drewharwell, @anildash, @jacaranda7, @florent.joly, @anildash, and @renee.diresta
X: @sfmcguire79, @stokel, @bethanyshondark, @jeffreyatucker, @micsolana, and @esaagar
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations” — Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul …
More: Wired, Android Police, B&T, How-To Geek, New York Times, and Newser
Bluesky: @badgerfacts, @kwameopam, @donmoyn, @sambiddle.com, @lmatsakis, @knibbs, and @michaelandfred. Mastodon: @corbin@toot.community
Threads: @zuck, @zuck, @zuck, @esqueer_, and @dsilverman
X: @thetranscript_ and @esaagar
LinkedIn: Richard Addy and Eryk Salvaggio
Forums: r/technews, r/gay, r/LGBTnews, r/technology, and r/transgender
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor to genocide” — “I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer — I. The past
More: Bloomberg and The Mirror
Bluesky: @rmac, @rmac, @rmac, @kris10p, and @tomlevenson
Threads: @crumbler, @karaswisher, and @crumbler
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta is dropping fact-checking after incoming FCC head Brendan Carr threatened it over such practices, undercutting the notion that Meta's move was principled — I have to commend Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his new policy chief Joel Kaplan on their timing.| Fox News: |
More: CNN, Fast Company, Social Media Today, USA Today, Lead Stories, Raw Story, Daily Kos, AfroTech, Townhall, Quartz, Common Dreams, Tubefilter, Digby's Hullabaloo, and Fox News
Bluesky: @stevekovach, @evelyndouek, @jeffjarvis, @cherri.tv, @samveep, @grumplicio.us, @ebakerwhite, @imyourchuckleberry, @davidakaye, @mgeist, and @nickjcal. Mastodon: @SheDrivesMobility …. Threads: @mcuban
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Screenshots: Meta's HR team deleted several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White, aiming to “help minimize disruption” internally — “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”
More: The Atlantic, Business Today, SFGATE, The Daily Dot, NECN, The Present Age, Gizmodo, and MobileSyrup
Bluesky: @hypervisible, @tomwarren.co.uk, @mmasnick, @romitmehta.com, @prietschka, @benfowlkes, @emanuelmaiberg, and @kevinbriody. Mastodon: @josephcox@infosec.exchange
Threads: @mosseri, @danawhite, and @personality_of_colt
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Associated Press: |
Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets — The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT …
More: The Hill, Tom's Hardware, NBC News, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Axios, SiliconANGLE, ABC News, CNN, and The Sun
Bluesky: @acabylonbee, @carlquintanilla, and @brianckeegan.com
X: @yayathehun, @jseldin, @jseldin, @garymarcus, @jseldin, and @brettforresttv
| Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central: |
OnePlus 13 review: excellent battery life, six years of security updates, solid build quality with an IP69 rating, but most AI tools need internet connectivity — OnePlus got everything right with the OnePlus 13 by fixing old problems and breaking new ground in design, build quality, and cameras.
More: CNET, OnePlus on YouTube, How-To Geek, GSMArena Official on YouTube, PCMag, Times of India, CNBC-TV18, The Verge, 9to5Google on YouTube, GSMArena.com, PCMag, Tech Advisor, Tech Spurt on YouTube, ShortCircuit on YouTube, JerryRigEverything on YouTube, PhoneArena, PhoneArena, PhoneArena, The Economic Times, IGN, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, Forbes, Android Central, 9to5Google, nextpit, The Economic Times on YouTube, CNET, Gizmochina, Android Authority, 91mobiles on YouTube, Android Authority, Business Standard, GSMArena.com, Android Police, BGR, MrMobile [Michael Fisher] on YouTube, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, Mashable, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, HotHardware, GSMArena.com, ZDNET, Business Standard, Gamereactor UK, Notebookcheck, TechSpot, Forbes, Tom's Guide, Smartprix, Android Authority, Trusted Reviews, Latest from Digital …, T3 (publication), BGR, Game Rant, 9to5Google, Android Headlines, Business Insider, SlashGear, XDA Developers, Yanko Design, Tom's Guide, and PhoneArena
X: @mishaalrahman, @mkbhd, @oneplus, @snapdragon, @oneplus_usa, and @oneplus
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Washington state's AG sues T-Mobile, claiming the carrier failed to adequately secure sensitive personal info of 2M+ residents in an August 2021 cyberattack — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a consumer protection lawsuit against T-Mobile on Monday, claiming that the Bellevue … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils the $500+ Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, and a $600 Windows model, for May, and a $730 Windows model for January — Lenovo is trying an experiment. In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship …
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X: @anshelsag. Forums: news.ycombinator.com, r/ROGAlly, r/hardware, r/SteamOS, r/SteamDeck, r/Handhelds, and r/ROGAllyX
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
More: The Verge, TechRadar, Engadget, 9to5Google, Windows Central, BetaNews, CNET, USA Today, Phandroid, and T3 (publication). Forums: Slashdot
| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2B in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that would value it at $60B — The Amazon-backed OpenAI rival was valued at $18 billion last year.
More: The Information, Reuters, The Daily Upside, New York Times, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Silicon Valley Business …, The Times, ZeroHedge News, Proactive, and TechCrunch
Bluesky: @prietschka. X: @tanayj, @haydenfield, @berber_jin1, @morningbrew, @sunil_trades, @morningbrew, and @andrewcurran_
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Sam Altman, in a statement with his family, denies the sexual abuse allegations made by his sister in a lawsuit and says she faces “mental health challenges” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sister, Ann Altman, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that her brother sexually abused her regularly between the years of 1997 and 2006.
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Business Insider, KSDK-TV, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
X: @sama, @haydenfield, and @marionawfal
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
People are using Runway AI on murder videos to appear like they came from a Minions movie, likely to bypass automated moderation on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — People are using the popular AI video generator Runway to make real videos of murder look like they came from one of the animated Minions movies …
Bluesky: @phantasm, @jaredlholt, @acab.dad, @emanuelmaiberg, and @jasonkoebler
| Taylor Lorenz / User Mag: |
For months, Meta hid posts that included LGBTQ+ hashtags for all users who had their sensitive content filter turned on; Meta claims this was done erroneously — Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts “sexually suggestive content”| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Addepar, a provider of wealth management and investment software, is in talks to raise $250M at a pre-money valuation of $3.25B, up from ~$2B in 2021 — - Over $7 trillion of assets are managed on Addepar platforms — Software company's clients include Morgan Stanley, Jefferies| Reuters: |
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over four reported crashes involving its “Actually Smart Summon” driverless feature — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened a probe into about 2.6 million Tesla …
More: The Register, Ars Technica, Detroit Free Press, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Yahoo Finance, Tech Xplore, Carscoops, Gizmodo, and Quartz
Bluesky: @cbusguy, @youngokc, and @annmlipton
| Michael Flaherty / Axios: |
Getty Images Holdings and Shutterstock agree to merge in a deal that creates a $3.7B company; Getty CEO Craig Peters will remain CEO of the combined business — - Shutterstock shareholders get one of the following: $28.84 per share in cash ($1.03 billion based on Shutterstock's outstanding shares) …
More: Getty Images Press Site, Seattle Business Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Neowin, and Cryptopolitan
Forums: r/photography, r/web_design, and Slashdot
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The White House launches the US Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices, after unveiling it in 2023 — Today, the White House announced the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a new cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices.
More: TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, The White House, The Record, CyberScoop, NBC News, The Verge, Nextgov/FCW, and ZDNET. Mastodon: @chetwisniewski …
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