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Biden calls Meta’s decision to drop fact-checking ‘really shameful’
Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes
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Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’
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Winter wedge issue: On Oliver Callan, icy weather is one of Ireland’s ever-growing urban-rural divides
Radio: ‘I can tell you Dublin is getting off very lightly in the cold snap so far,’ Oliver Callan notes on Tuesday’s show, ‘much to our relief here’
Zuckerberg shifts to Trump, but will he pay a price?
Meta chief drops factcheckers, but don’t bet on move to go well with his advertisers
Calls for EU to resist social media giants regulation rollback
European Commission under pressure to combat Elon Musk’s ‘intolerable’ meddling in European elections
Meta elects UFC chief Dana White to board
Investor Charlie Songhurst, Exor chief executive John Elkann also join board
Clegg out, Kaplan in: a sign of the Trumpian times at Meta
Former Lib Dem leader has been replaced by a Republican ally as tech sector races to appease the president-elect
Silicon Valley seeks an audience at the court of Trump
Tech bros from Elon Musk to Sam Altman are looking to president-elect’s second term to unshackle them from regulatory restrictions
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Bluesky, the non-toxic alternative to X, has had a glow-up. But is the app here to stay?
Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like Threads
Surviving a shake-up: is restructuring ever good for staff?
As companies from Amazon to Citi overhaul management, experts warn that savings from job cuts can be overtaken by unintended consequences
Meta staff fired for misusing free food vouchers
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Schools abuse report shows how the legal system hurts victims and must change
The system must be changed so victims don’t have to campaign for decades to get justice and redress and so those liable can be held to account
Can tech executives be held responsible for what happens on their platforms?
Indictment of Telegram founder Pavel Durov raises the stakes in evolving debate over responsibility for online content
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says he was ‘pressured’ by Biden administration to pull Covid content
Mark Zuckerberg expresses ‘regret’ at parent company Meta’s handling of content moderation during pandemic
Meta unveils latest artificial intelligence models as it plans open-source future
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Meta explores stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica
Facebook owner considers multibillion investment in European eyewear group to expand smart glasses partnership
Four-day Mumbai wedding extravaganza to cost more than €550m
The marriage of the son of Asia’s richest businessman, Mukesh Ambani, takes place over the weekend with guests including Kim Kardashian, Tony Blair and Mark Zuckerberg
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Investors unfazed by warnings about social media’s effects on adolescents
A high-profile call for tobacco-style warnings had no lasting effects on platforms’ shares
Markets may be peaking as Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg among insiders selling off tech stocks
Bosses sell hundreds of millions of dollars in company shares this quarter in sign that markets may be peaking
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Television: Amanda Seyfried is gripping as ill-fated Theranos founder, steering well clear of caricature
Mark Zuckerberg mixes business with pleasure as he drops in on wedding party thrown by Asia’s richest man
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