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Mark Zuckerberg accused fact-checkers in US of making biased decisions • Meta scraps factcheckers The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday his company, Meta, would be scrapping factcheckers in the US, accusing them of making biased decisions and saying he wanted to enable greater free speech. Meta uses third-party independent factcheckers around the world. …

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Data from the Entertainment and Retail Association shows more and more players leaving physical games behind for digital downloads and subscriptions As music sales and streaming revenue reaches a high of £2.4bn – the highest since 2001, not accounting for significant inflation – the UK video game market, which has grown almost continually for decades, …

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Introducing my kids to games like Link’s Awakening has given me a whole new perspective on these old favourites and made me excited for what new video game adventures we’ll have together in the future Thanks to some distinctly Scottish weather over the holidays, my family and I ended up celebrating Hogmanay at home rather …

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Bulk of funds for electric vehicle firm relate to government’s plug-in car grant, analysis finds Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company has received almost £200m in grants from the UK government since 2016, according to analysis. Tesla, which is run by the tech billionaire who has become increasingly vocal about the UK government, has received £191m …

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Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social media company’s oversight board and the former prime minister of Denmark, said ‘Meta systems have been too complex’, adding there had been ‘over-enforcement’. She told BBC Radio 4 that she did not think Nick Clegg left Meta, where he was president of global affairs, because of the change, …

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Tech entrepreneur and family say Ann Altman’s claims that abuse started in childhood are ‘utterly untrue’ The sister of the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he regularly sexually abused her for several years, starting when they were children. The lawsuit filed on 6 January in a US district court …

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Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes move by rival The co-chair of Meta’s oversight board has said the company’s systems have become “too complex” after it decided to scrap factcheckers, as the chief executive of Elon Musk’s X welcomed the decision. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of the social …

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Is technology really to blame for bad behaviour, or is something else afoot? People who walk along the street with their heads down, staring at their phones, are enemies of society. They are narcissistic babies who have unilaterally derogated from the social contract that says you should look where you’re going to make sure you …

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The Meta boss’s decision to end Facebook and Instagram’s factchecking program has set the stage for a fact-free four years online Social media has always acted as something of a funhouse mirror to society as a whole. The algorithms and amplifications of an always-online existence have helped accentuate the worst parts of our lives, while …

A new era of lies: Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an extinction-level event for truth on social media | Chris Stokel-Walker Read More »

The social media giant enters a more partisan political era as its CEO pursues Donald Trump’s approval Meta is shifting to the right, following the prevailing political winds blowing through the United States. A more partisan era now looms for the social media giant and its corporate leaders, though Mark Zuckerberg himself has few personal …

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