In November 2016, when Facebook was blamed for a flood of fake news and conspiracy theories surrounding the first election of Donald J. Trump, Mark… Read More »Mark Zuckerberg's political evolution, from excuses to no more excuses
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for two former Georgia election workers owed $148 million in damages after suing Rudy Giuliani for defamation said Tuesday that… Read More »Lawyers who sued Rudy Giuliani for $148 million say World Series rings should be given up
Meta today announced a series of major updates to its content moderation policy, including ending its fact-checking partnerships and “eliminating” restrictions on speech on “topics… Read More »Meta now lets users say gay and transgender people have 'mental illness'
Meta said Tuesday it was ending its long-standing fact-checking program, a policy put in place to curb the spread of misinformation through its social media… Read More »Meta ends fact-checking program ahead of Trump term
Private artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion in funding at a valuation of $60 billion, according to the Wall… Read More »AI startup Anthropic in talks to raise $2 billion at $60 billion valuation: WSJ
It was only a little over a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had little trouble expressing his politics. Serious and optimistic – perhaps naively –… Read More »Meta ends fact-checking program ahead of Trump term: live updates
President-elect Donald Trump railed against President Joe Biden on Tuesday and mused about renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” among a range… Read More »Trump doesn't rule out military force to retake Panama Canal, threatens 'all hell will break loose' over Israeli hostages
Meta announced today that it is ending the third-party fact-checking program it introduced in 2016, and will instead rely on a Community Notes approach similar… Read More »Meta scraps third-party fact-checkers in time for Trump's second term
Facebook has already contributed to the demise of journalism and this will be the final nail in the coffin,” Nina Jankowicz, the Biden administration's former… Read More »Meta is eliminating fact-checkers in the run-up to Trump's second term
It was only a little over a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had little trouble expressing his politics. Serious and optimistic – perhaps naively –… Read More »Live updates: Meta ends fact-checking program ahead of Trump term
(Bloomberg) — China's Zijin Mining Group Co. wants to start producing lithium in the Democratic Republic of Congo early next year from one of the… Read More »China's Zijin plans lithium production in Congo from 2026
Nvidia already sells boatloads of computer chips to every major company that builds its own artificial intelligence models. But now, at a time when public… Read More »Nvidia's $3,000 'Personal AI Supercomputer' lets you leave the data center behind
“Taking these many important concerns together, readers are advised to exercise great caution in drawing conclusions about possible associations between fluoride exposure and lower IQ,”… Read More »Controversial fluoride analysis published after years of failed reviews
The pound recovered more ground against the dollar after a sharp fall last week, rising 0.2% to $1.2537 in early European trading on Tuesday. Sterling… Read More »commodity and currency check, January 7
The Pentagon on Monday labeled Tencent, the Chinese social media and gaming giant, as a Chinese military company operating in the United States, the latest… Read More »US adds Tencent to the blacklist of Chinese military companies
