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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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Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol, @7sleepersmusic@mastodon …, @kevinrothrock@infosec …, @jeff@newsie.social, @bendrath@eupolicy.social, and @gleick@mas.to
Threads: @zuck, @zuck, @brandeebarker, @tanis_em, @mcuban, @kurtwag8, @dens, @photomatt, @guillecummings, @beltzner, @beltzner, @katienotopoulos, @katienotopoulos, @karaswisher, @wongmjane, @documentingmeta, @dsilverman, @drewpusateri, @renee.diresta, @mergesort, @sung.kim.mw, and @ianbetteridge. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
X: @emollick, @jamesrbuk, @ericnewcomer, @jason, @esthercrawford, @waitbutwhy, @nikitabier, @rihardjarc, @elonmusk, @brendancarrfcc, @tomwarren, @tomcoates, @brianstelter, @johnbiggs, @jim_jordan, @antoniogm, @markpinc, @wexler, @ajs, @eric_seufert, @mikebutcher, @adrianweckler, @atrupar, @teroterotero, @apompliano, @antoniogm, @dhh, @eoghan, @mgeist, @danprimack, @basedbeffjezos, @sarafischer, @oversightboard, @prem_thakker, @antoniogm, @hadas_gold, @kylascan, @nkulw, @lindayax, and @benthompson
LinkedIn: Matt Snodgrass, Richard Huntington, Niall Breslin, Max Schrems, Ha Phan, Jon-Stephen Stansel, and Guido Palazzo
| Fox News: |
Meta's Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression”, which “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on” — FIRST ON FOX: Meta is ending its fact-checking program and lifting restrictions on speech to …
More: Meta, CNN, Mother Jones, New York Times, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Common Dreams, AfroTech, Fox Business, The Hill, Social Media Today, Fast Company, Business Insider, WOWK-TV, Fox News, The Daily Caller, The Information, The Bulwark, Mediaite, and Daily Kos
Bluesky: @samveep, @nickjcal, @jdoggolie, @ebakerwhite, @stevekovach, @evelyndouek, @davidakaye, @helloyorick.fightins.online, @jeffjarvis, @mgeist, @notdred, @cherri.tv, @lids, @grumplicio.us, @lakewitchhouse, @tslwhidbey, and @imyourchuckleberry. Mastodon: @SheDrivesMobility …. Threads: @mcuban
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally — “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”
More: SFGATE, Gizmodo, The Daily Dot, CNBC, MobileSyrup, and The Present Age
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| 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, The Hollywood Reporter, Werd I/O, kottke.org, Bloomberg, Northeastern Global News, Time, Advocate, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, and ZeroHedge News
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Mastodon: @kubikpixel@chaos.social and @stuntbox@mastodon.social
Threads: @zuck, @renee.diresta, @hi.im.vijay, @anildash, @jacaranda7, and @anildash
X: @sfmcguire79, @stokel, @bethanyshondark, @jeffreyatucker, @micsolana, and @esaagar
LinkedIn: Prof. Annabelle Gawer and Sophie Nadeau
Forums: r/AWDTSGisToxic, r/politics, r/samharris, and r/conservativeterrorism
| 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: Associated Press, NPR, WinBuzzer, Gizmodo, and FactCheck.org
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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 …
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Threads: @zuck, @zuck, @zuck, @esqueer_, and @dsilverman
X: @thetranscript_ and @esaagar
LinkedIn: Eryk Salvaggio and Richard Addy
| 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.| 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”
More: Engadget and Fast Company
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Mastodon: @baldur@toot.cafe and @ianb@mastodon.well.com
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia says the RTX 5090 has 92B transistors, 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 4,000 AI TOPS, and DLSS 4, which can use AI to generate up to three frames per rendered frame — As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs.
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Forums: r/joinsquad, r/flightsim, and r/MicrosoftFlightSim
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang predicts robotics could become “the largest technology industry the world has ever seen”; Nvidia: the humanoids market will reach $38B in 20 years — Jensen Huang unveils AI models for humanoids and self-driving car partnership with Toyota at CES keynote
More: VICE, Fox Business, Bloomberg, Associated Press, New York Times, SHINE, Robotics & Automation News, and Le Monde. Forums: r/anime_titties
| 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, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Barron's Online, CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes, The Decoder, Cointelegraph, and Proactive
Bluesky: @prietschka. X: @berber_jin1, @morningbrew, @sunil_trades, @morningbrew, @andrewcurran_, @tanayj, and @haydenfield
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils the $499 Legion Go S, the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, weighing 1.6 pounds and ditching the previous gen's detachable gamepads — Lenovo is trying an experiment. In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC …
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Forums: r/ROGAllyX, r/ROGAlly, r/hardware, r/SteamOS, r/SteamDeck, and r/Handhelds
| Reuters: |
The US NHTSA says it has opened a probe into ~2.6M Tesla vehicles over reports of 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 …
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Mastodon: @mloxton@med-mastodon.com and @scotclose@indieweb.social
Forums: r/RealTesla, r/electricvehicles, and r/cars
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
People are taking horrific videos like of mass shootings and using Runway's AI tools to insert cartoons, likely to bypass social networks' automated moderation — 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
| 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, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Neowin, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Proactive, New York Post, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, and MarketWatch
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Forums: r/photography, r/web_design, and Slashdot
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Asus unveils the 2025 Asus XG Mobile, a $1,200+ portable docking station with the world's first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU, with an option to add a GeForce RTX 5090 — This smoky black translucent box isn't a gaming PC — instead, it might be the most powerful single-cable portable docking station ever conceived.| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI may launch agents this month and has been cautious, as rivals like Anthropic moved ahead, partly due to concerns of prompt injection attacks — Imagine you're asking a computer-using agent from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google to find and order a new outfit for your upcoming holiday party …
More: Platformer, The Decoder, and Windows Central
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple plans to expand Apple News to more countries and considered building locally focused news coverage in the UK; Apple News has ~125M monthly users — Tech group now a force in driving revenues for publishers in US, UK, Canada and Australia — Unlock the Editor's Digest for free
More: MacRumors, The Apple Post, Adweek, Benzinga, Neowin, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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