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I have built up followers on Instagram too, and I am making money from it, but the experience isn’t like how it used to be on TikTok,
said content creator Winnie Sangma It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update – or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of – a foreign adversary controlled application,
It has woken up the entire nation,
said 26-year-old Awa, known on TikTok as Sincerely Awa There’s no way to mince my words on this – people will lose their livelihoods,
I think that Mark Zuckerberg is trying to follow in Elon’s footsteps, which means that actually, they’re going to use this guise of free speech to actually suppress critics of Trump and critics of themselves,
Representative for New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told Business Insider I suspect we will see a rise in false and misleading information around a number of topics, as there will be an incentive for those who want to spread that kind of content,
Claire Wardle, an associate professor in communication at Cornell University told Vox, a digital media company and news website Our findings also suggest that Community Notes might be too slow to intervene in the early (and most viral) stage of the diffusion.”
However, the research paper added It seems like Meta is finally taking a page from Elon Musk’s playbook & letting Americans make decisions for themselves. It’s about time Meta owned up to censoring Americans,
Republican Representative Randy Weber of Texas who spoke to Business Insider Genuinely baffled by the unempirical assertion that Community Notes ‘works.’ Does it? How do Meta know? The best available research is pretty mixed on this point. And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?”
Yoel Roth, the former head of Twitter’s trust and safety department stated in a BlueSky post We find that receiving a displayed community note increases the likelihood of tweet retraction, thus underscoring the promise of crowdchecking. Our mechanism tests reveal that this positive effect mainly stems from consideration of users who had actively interacted with the misinformation (ie, observed influence), rather than of users who might have passively encountered or would encounter the misinformation (ie, presumed influence),
Gao explained in the paper We absolutely refute any claims of censorship on our side,
European Commission spokesperson Paula Pinho told reporters in Brussels Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything. And Meta always held the cards,
said Neil Brown, president of the Poynter Institute, the journalism nonprofit that owns PolitiFact in a public statement As someone who tries to be non-hypocritically pro-free speech, my inclination is to welcome the changes. But Zuck’s motivations are questionable: there’s no doubt that Meta and other media companies are under explicit and intense political pressure from the incoming Trump administration. So perhaps it’s the right move for the wrong reasons.”
Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight and a political pollster who now runs the Silver Bulletin blog on Substack, gave his take on the change in a recent blog post The perception of California in the United States and among those in the incoming [presidential] administration is very different than the perception of Texas,
He actually mentioned something that is not getting a lot of attention. He said, basically we are done with relying on legacy media,
This decision to move to Texas is born out of both some practicality and also some political motivation,
stated Samuel Woolley, the founder and former director of propaganda research at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Media Engagement who spoke to digital newsgroup The Texas Tribune We’ve learned the news as everyone has today. It’s a hard hit for the fact-checking community and journalism. We’re assessing the situation,
the news agency AFP, which operates AFP Fact Check, said in a statement There’s been a shift rightward in terms of attitudes toward free speech in Silicon Valley and perhaps this decision is part of that,
Sol Messing, a research associate professor at New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics and a former research scientist at Facebook, told ABC News Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws, institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there,
So of course, somebody commented, ‘Daily reminder that the US is sending tax payer funds to the Taliban, weekly,
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