Zuckerberg said that “fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created”. Social media giant Meta announced Tuesday a significant rollback of its content moderation policies, including the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in the United States. “We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to …

The restrictions severely impacted many online businesses that used online platforms like Instagram to advertise and sell products or services. Ardavan Yousefi has gotten so used to life under Iran’s sweeping internet restrictions that for him, a recent decision to lift a ban on messaging service WhatsApp went virtually unnoticed. “Oh wow, is it really removed now?” Yousefi, a cafe …

Google and Meta, which together control about 80 percent of all advertising revenue in Canada, had been accused of draining cash away from traditional news organizations while using news content for free. Google said Friday it had paid Can$100 million to Canadian news outlets to use their content on its platform, as part of a deal with the government to …