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The UN rights chief declared that regulating online hate speech and harmful content is not censorship. Meta recently ...

Meta is loosening its rules on hate speech and cutting back on fact-checking, allowing more harmful content to slip through on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The controversial changes aim to reduce ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday will hold a hearing on the ban of TikTok, which carries implications on the global ...

Miss Universe Malta, Beatrice Njoya, had a touching story to share about her son and his mature approach to hate speech ...

The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content moderation on the eve of the second Trump ...

The changes he’s making to appease Donald Trump won’t fix the ways Facebook is harmful to our civic and political life.

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As per the new policy, it is now okay to call gay and trans people ‘mentally ill’ and refer to women as ‘household objects’ ...

The View" co-stars Alyssa Farah Griffin and Joy Behar sparred over Meta’s recent decision to end its fact-checking program to ...

The full impact of Meta’s “community management” approach to moderation remains to be seen, but social media creators will ...

When fact-checkers turn into censors, a power shift had to happen. If you want to know who wields power in a society, there’s ...