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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes “a precursor for genocide”  —  “I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer  —  I. The past
Fox News:
Donald Trump says Meta has “come a long way” after the company announced it will end its fact-checking program, and that Meta's “presentation was excellent”  —  EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump reacted to Meta's move to end its fact-checking program on Facebook …
Bruna Horvath / NBC News:
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore “free expression” on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the move in a post Tuesday morning.  —  Meta is scrapping its fact-checking program …
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David Gilbert / Wired:
Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”  —  Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
New York Times:
Meta will move trust and safety and content moderation teams from California to Texas, to remove concerns “that biased employees are overly censoring content”  —  The move will end a third-party fact-checking system and rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts.
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with fact-checked content, denying Meta's claim
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg demanded a review at Meta after his 2023 knee surgery post on Facebook initially got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance
Fox News:
Meta's Joel Kaplan says the Trump administration is “a huge supporter of free expression”, which “gets us back to the values that Mark founded the company on”
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meta will lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse”, like immigration and gender, and focus on “illegal and high-severity violations”
Hayden Field / CNBC:
In a statement with his family, Sam Altman denies the sexual abuse allegations made by his sister Ann in a lawsuit and says she faces “mental health challenges”  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's sister, Ann Altman, filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that her brother sexually abused …
Associated Press:
Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets  —  The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT …
Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central:
OnePlus 13 review: excellent battery life, six years of security updates, solid build quality with an IP69 rating, but most AI tools need internet connectivity  —  OnePlus got everything right with the OnePlus 13 by fixing old problems and breaking new ground in design, build quality, and cameras.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Screenshots: Meta's HR team deleted several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White, aiming to “help minimize disruption” internally  —  “Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
AWS says it plans to invest “at least” $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia, which is becoming a popular state for data centers in the US  —  On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest “at least” …
Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward:
Docs: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer Wikipedia editors who it says are “abusing their position” to publish antisemitic content  —  The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2B in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $60B valuation; Anthropic was valued at $18B in 2024  —  The Amazon-backed OpenAI rival was valued at $18 billion last year.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Wall Street wealth management and investment software provider Addepar is in talks to raise $250M at a $3.25B pre-money valuation, up from $2B+ in 2021  —  - Over $7 trillion of assets are managed on Addepar platforms  — Software company's clients include Morgan Stanley, Jefferies
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The White House launches the US Cyber Trust Mark, a voluntary cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices, after unveiling it in 2023  —  Today, the White House announced the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a new cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices.
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
The US NLRB says Google is a “joint employer” of ~50 Accenture Flex workers who joined the Alphabet Workers Union in 2023 and must bargain with their union  —  Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) is facing a second complaint from a U.S. labor board claiming that it is the employer …
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
Indonesian e-commerce pioneer Bukalapak will stop sales of physical goods to focus on virtual goods like mobile credits, amid competition from Shopee and others  —  - Online retailer exits physical goods to focus on virtual ones  — Revamp comes as TikTok Shop gains traction in the country
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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