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.
In an update to its RealPage complaint, the DOJ and ten state AGs allege six large landlords used harmed renters by using “common pricing algorithms.” Acting antitrust chief Doha Mekki says the landlords “shared sensitive information about rental prices and used algorithms to coordinate to keep the price of rent high.”
The Kids Online Safety Act was supposed to fix (or break) the internet. Now, after nearly three years of rewrites, it’s got days left to pass.
The American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Knight First Amendment Institute are asking the court to pause the law that could ban TikTok on January 19th while considering the case. They “urge the Court to see the Act for what it is: a sweeping ban on free expression that triggers and fails the most exacting scrutiny under the First Amendment.”
[www.supremecourt.gov]
