15 place 43
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Image
Experts warn that Meta’s decision to end its third-party fact-checking program could allow disinformation and hate to fester online and permeate the real world.
The company announced today that it’s phasing out a program launched in 2016 where it partners with independent fact-checkers around the world to identify and review misinformation across its social media platforms. Meta is replacing the program with a crowdsourced approach to content moderation.
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
The Verge
Splash Damage has announced it's cancelling the development of Transformers: Reactivate, and that it'll be "scaling down" the studio as result, leaving roles "at risk of redundancy". Read more Read more ›
4,718 fresh
BI has learned that Meta's contract with US fact-checkers will conclude in March. Read more ›
4,132 fresh
Meta's shocking decision to get rid of its fact-checkers shows how Mark Zuckerberg is reshaping his company in some impactful ways. Read more ›
2,882 fresh
Classic FM is launching a new video game music radio series presented by Minecraft YouTuber DanTDM. Read more Read more ›
2,735 fresh
Arcane fans have a five-minute animated treat to enjoy today, in the shape of a new story cinematic released by League of Legends maker Riot Games. Read more Read more ›
2,122 fresh
10 years after he was first attached to the project, It and The Flash director Andrés Muschietti says he still has plans for Sony's Shadow of the Colossus film adaptation. Read more Read more ›
1,845 fresh
The Pokémon Company will once again hold a Pokémon Presents livestream next month, according to leak of data from Pokémon Go. Read more Read more ›
1,765 fresh
The Heritage Foundation sets its sites on the world's free online encyclopedia. Read more ›
1,617 fresh
Meta’s AI characters users might seem useless, but fake social media users can sometimes offer valuable insights into real human behavior. Read more ›
1,598 fresh
Meta's about-face on fact checking shows how Musk has remade the world in his image. Read more ›
1,542
The future of Microsoft's handheld gaming plans includes a marriage between the best of Xbox and Windows. Read more Read more ›
1,527 fresh
In the UK today, McDonalds is finally launching its Sonic the Hedgehog 3 themed Happy Meals. Read more Read more ›
1,466 fresh
Apple has expanded its production footprint in the United States, with its S9 chip for the Apple Watch now reportedly being manufactured at TSMC's facility in Arizona. According to technology columnist Tim Culpan, TSMC has now started producing Apple's S9 System-in-Package (SiP) chip near Phoenix, Arizona at its Fab 21 plant. The company commenced production of the A16 Bionic chip for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus at the... Read more ›
1,324 fresh
Sony's upcoming Until Dawn film adaptation will feature both a new cast of characters and a new story. Read more Read more ›
1,320 fresh
President Biden in an interview with USA Today said Trump was "very complimentary" of a portion of his economic record during a private meeting. Read more ›
1,162 fresh
If there's one thing video games love, it's a marketing beat. Some major publishers and platform holders have settled into quite regular rhythms, spacing announcements out across the year in quarterly chunks. Some have a specific day they use every year without fail. Read more Read more ›
972 fresh
Data from on high reveals the stark differences in temperature across the continental United States. Read more ›
855 fresh
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says "community notes" will now moderate content. That already happens on Elon Musk's X. Here's how they work — and don't. Read more ›
822
Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the thick ice shells of bodies like Europa. Read more ›
729
The Verge
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and... Read more ›
3,758
Meta says it’s seen the shift to Community Notes ‘work on X.’ | Image: The Verge Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta’s new Trump-friendly policy chief Joe Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas. “We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they... Read more ›
1,525
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding the Project Digits computer on stage at Nvidia’s CES 2025 press conference. | Image: Nvidia If you were looking for your own personal AI supercomputer, Nvidia has you covered. The chipmaker announced at CES it’s launching a personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits in May. The heart of Project Digits is the new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which packs enough processing power to run sophisticated... Read more ›
544
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Federal net neutrality rules, which briefly came back from the dead under the Biden administration, have been struck down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The three-judge panel ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority to impose net neutrality rules on internet service providers (ISPs). The FCC sought to reclassify ISPs as... Read more ›
456
The Verge / Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images A few months before the first Cybertrucks were delivered to customers, Tesla CEO Elon Musk got on a call with investors and said he wanted to “temper expectations” about the polarizing vehicle. “It’s a great product, but financially, it will take, I don’t know, a year to 18 months before it is a significant positive cash flow contributor,” Musk said in the... Read more ›
379
Image: The Verge Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like... Google. It’s a clear attempt from Microsoft to make Bing look like Google for this specific search query, and other searches just list the usual Bing... Read more ›
364
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees. The proposed settlement, reported by Bloomberg, could pay many US-based Apple product owners up to $20 per device for up to five Siri-enabled devices. It still requires approval by a judge. If approved, the settlement would... Read more ›
321
Image: Chris Welch / The Verge Afeela is starting to become a little bit more than just a feeling. The electric vehicle that’s a joint venture between Sony and Honda is finally available for preorder. And it only took five years to get here. At its press conference at CES today, Sony Honda Mobility announced pricing and preorder details for Afeela. The vehicle will come in two trims: the $89,900... Read more ›
311
Image: HDMI Forum The HDMI Forum is using CES — the annual showcase of all things home theater — to announce the new HDMI 2.2 specification. In a press release this morning, the trade association confirmed that the new spec will up total bandwidth significantly to a new high of 96Gbps. And yes, that means the introduction of an “Ultra96” HDMI cable that “enables all the HDMI 2.2 specification features.”... Read more ›
235
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook is the next tech exec to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, according to Axios. Cook’s donation follows similar commitments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos through Amazon, and Meta as Big Tech companies and executives work to curry favor with the incoming administration. Cook famously built a personal relationship with Trump during his... Read more ›
222
Most popular sources
Eurogamer.net
|
29% 22 |
Business Insider
|
25% 4 |
Wired
|
15% 25 |
|
The Verge
|
6% 1 |
Gizmodo
|
5% 2 |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
08.01.2025 14:41
Last update: 14:36 EDT.
News rating updated: 21:30.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.
popular
