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January 16, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Google Snubs EU Law Over Fact-Checking YouTube Videos
Google announced it would pull out of the EU’s anti-disinformation code of practice.
January 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
New Details of Meta’s Rule Change Give Away Zuckerberg’s Whole Game
Mark Zuckerberg is only trying to please one person.
January 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Steve Bannon Warns Trump’s Newest MAGA Stooge “Can’t Be Trusted”
Bannon is not thrilled by the growing ranks of Silicon Valley billionaires around Donald Trump.
January 9, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Meta’s Dangerous Rule Change Has Unleashed Some Vile New Content
Employees are reportedly protesting the changes.
January 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Gloats Meta Changed Rules Because Zuckerberg Is Scared of Him
Donald Trump is feeling pretty smug about Mark Zuckerberg.
October 5, 2021
Daniel Strauss
The Fight to Rein in Facebook Takes a Big Step—or Two—Forward This Week
First, whistleblower Frances Haugen will testify. Then Biden’s aggressive antitrust pick finally gets his confirmation hearing. But it’s still an uphill battle.
August 17, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Wants to Ban the Taliban. It’s Another War That Can’t Be Won.
The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan is an extreme, though not entirely unique, test case for the power and the peril of these platforms.
May 12, 2021
Josh Sklar
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Jacob Silverman
I Was a Facebook Content Moderator. I Quit in Disgust.
Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.
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