The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case against the TikTok divest-or-ban bill on Friday, which will determine the future of the app in the US.
The Meta CEO is pushing back on critics who say the company is only making its content policy changes because it’s “too hard for people to leave.” Zuckerberg shot back that he’s “counting on these changes actually making our platform better,” and while some may leave for “virtue signaling,” most users will enjoy the changes.
The ten fact-checking organizations will continue to receive payments until August, and those who haven’t signed 2025 contracts could get severance, Business Insider reports. Meta told members of the International Fact-Checking Network that their partnerships were ending just 45 minutes before it publicly announced sweeping changes to its content moderation and fact checking policies.
Poor Mark Zuckerberg. Imagine calling the 2024 election a “cultural tipping point” for “prioritizing speech” and then the guy who got elected starts bragging about how he threatened you into self-censorship. At least Trump won’t throw him in jail?
Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton will be heard on January 15th. Vox explains what’s at stake in this battle over a Texas law requiring age verification to access sites with pornography
