{"id":17415,"date":"2025-01-22T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/nick-clegg-defends-metas-removal-of-facebook-and-instagram-factcheckers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:37:17","slug":"nick-clegg-defends-metas-removal-of-facebook-and-instagram-factcheckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/nick-clegg-defends-metas-removal-of-facebook-and-instagram-factcheckers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Clegg defends Meta\u2019s removal of Facebook and Instagram factcheckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Executive tells WEF in Davos the sites will still have \u2018the industry\u2019s most sophisticated community standards\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/jan\/22\/davos-day-two-rachel-reeves-uk-economy-ai-un-europe-live-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nick Clegg has given a robust defence of Meta\u2019s decision to downgrade moderation on its social media platforms and get rid of factcheckers.<\/p>\n<p>The changes on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/07\/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content\">which also included moves to promote more political content<\/a>, were announced by the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p> As he prepares to depart the tech company after six years to make way for the more Donald Trump-friendly Joel Kaplan, Clegg denied that Meta was downgrading its commitment to truth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/22\/nick-clegg-metafacebook-instagram-factcheckers-wef-davos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/22bdc75f2ed76d098f7bb795c9ea960f9ca1da60\/0_93_6255_3753\/master\/6255.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2ba1be489f42a7983e052fa391efc349\" title=\"Nick Clegg defends Meta\u2019s removal of Facebook and Instagram factcheckers\" \/>Executive tells WEF in Davos the sites will still have \u2018the industry\u2019s most sophisticated community standards\u2019<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nNick Clegg has given a robust defence of Meta\u2019s decision to downgrade moderation on its social media platforms and get rid of factcheckers.<br \/>\nThe changes on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, which also included moves to promote more political content, were announced by the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, earlier this month.<br \/>\n As he prepares to depart the tech company after six years to make way for the more Donald Trump-friendly Joel Kaplan, Clegg denied that Meta was downgrading its commitment to truth. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive tells WEF in Davos the sites will still have \u2018the industry\u2019s most sophisticated community standards\u2019 Business live \u2013 latest updates Nick Clegg has given a robust defence of Meta\u2019s decision to downgrade moderation on its social media platforms and get rid of factcheckers. The changes on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, which also included moves &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/nick-clegg-defends-metas-removal-of-facebook-and-instagram-factcheckers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nick Clegg defends Meta\u2019s removal of Facebook and Instagram factcheckers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}