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Meta drops fact-checking, loosens its content moderation rules
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul in how it's handling content moderation on its site, taking off
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul in how it’s handling content moderation on its site, taking off some of the guardrails that it had put in place over the last several years in response to criticism that it had helped to spread political and health misinformation. Lastly, users will be encouraged to take a “personalized” approach to political content, making way for considerably more opinion and slant in people’s feeds that fits whatever they want to see. Meta had put a lot of its guardrails in place in the wake of political and public criticism of how it helped spread election misinformation, bad advice on Covid-19, and other controversies, leading to the company to form an Oversight Committee, increase moderation, and put in place other levers to help people control what content they saw, and to alert Meta to content when they believed it was toxic or misleading.
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