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A key Meta team is moving to Texas after tech giant nixes fact checking
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is moving to a community notes program over third-party fact-checkers.
Meta to move content moderators to Texas as part of plan to end fact-checking program
The tech giant’s decision to end the program comes as CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeks to mend ties with the incoming Trump administration.
Zuckerberg says he’s moving Meta moderators to Texas because California seems too ‘biased’
As we work to promote free expression, I think that it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there’s less concern about the bias of our teams,’ according to the Meta CEO.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is moving moderators from California to Texas to combat concerns about bias and censorship
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said moving teams from California to Texas and other states would help address concerns of overcensorship on its platforms.
The Spirit of Facebook Is Moving From California to Texas
In that spirit, on Tuesday he announced that the trust and safety teams who write content policy for Facebook, Meta, and Threads would be moving from California to Texas. Facebook’s content cops will trade In & Out for Whataburger.
Meta’s content moderation teams moving from California to Texas after scrapping fact checking system
Meta is eliminating fact-checkers in a move founder Mark Zuckerberg said will make free speech a priority on its social media platforms — including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — and align the multinational tech giant with a political tilt to the right with the recent election of Donald Trump.
Business leaders and lawmakers react to Meta's content moderation changes
Several lawmakers told BI that Meta's content moderation overhaul is a bad sign and an indication CEO Mark Zuckerberg is kowtowing to Donald Trump.
Is California too liberal to moderate Facebook? Meta moves moderation team to Texas
Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert! META SHUTS DOWN ITS FACT-CHECKING, WILL MOVE ITS MODERATION TEAM OUT OF CALIFORNIA Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will no longer fact check posts on its platforms,
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Meta now lets users call women 'property' and gay people 'mentally ill'
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Texas lawmakers weigh strategies for protecting minors from social media
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Meta to end fact-checking, replacing it with community-driven system akin to Elon Musk's X
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is putting an end to its fact-check program and replacing ...
Meta Says It Will End Its Fact-Checking Program on Social Media Posts
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