The ification of Meta is done using X-ification
Facebook-owned social media platform Meta has announced it will end its fact-checking program and cut down its rules barring hate speech in a move allegedly aimed at appeasing President-elect Donald Trump. It has also changed its community guidelines which allow users to make blatantly anti-gay, sexist and racist posts without consequences. Meta said it would be ending its third-party fact-checking program.
The partners say that they were blindsided by the Decision to Axe Them
Facebook’s Meta fact-checking platform is terminating its partnership with Poynter Institute and the International Fact-Checking Network. The Poynter Institute and the International Fact-Checking Network are among the fact-checking partners on Meta. Notably, the Poynter Institute also operates PolitiFact, which is an Meta fact-checking partner. Meta said the move was due to it making “too many mistakes”.
Meta will end fact checking as the Silicon Valley prepares for Trump
Facebook’s third-party fact-checking tool Meta has decided to end its partnership with the platform. It will rely on a community notes program which it said would allow users to write and rate notes next to posts, instead of automated systems. Meta CEO Alexios Mantzarlis said that Meta has made “too many mistakes” in how it applied its content policies.
There are fake ads being put out by the super PAC financed by Elon Musk
Facebook’s ad-blocking platform Meta said it will not allow new political advertisements to be placed the week before the US presidential election, adding that political ads can still appear if purchased before the week of the election. “Yes, there is a FirstAmendment right to lie, but that doesn’t constrain Meta’s management of advertisements on its platform,” it added.
The US Senate is against big tech interfering with the election
Google, Apple, and Meta executives, including its Global Affairs head Kent Walker, testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about their ongoing efforts to identify and disrupt foreign influence campaigns ahead of the country’s November elections. Warner said, “We are less safe today because many of those independent academic reviewers have been litigated, bullied or chased out of the marketplace.”
Meta’s New Llama 3.1 is free, powerful, and risky
Internet company Meta has announced the release of Llama 3.1, the largest-ever open-source artificial intelligence model. It claims that the model’s performance outperforms the GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks. It added a feature that could generate images based on someone’s specific likeness, one of the ways it’s making the llama-based Meta AI assistant available in more countries and languages.
Microsoft already has in it, but that is because it believes it can cash in on Generative AI
Apple and Microsoft have released language models for iPhone that can be run on a phone. This week, Meta released its AI model called GPT-4, which it claims is the most powerful open-source AI model. Sizzle, an AI tutor, currently uses GPT-4 and other AI models, both closed and open, to craft problem sets and curricula for students.
There was a brief unavailability of artificial-generated Asians on social media
A report by The New York Times said a text generator by Meta, which lets users create images using artificial intelligence (AI), showed fake pictures of two Asian people. “I was curious if the problem was solved or if the system was still unable to create an accurate image of an Asian person and their white friend,” The New York Times said.
X is defending itself against accusations that it played host to Israel-Hamas misinformation
The European Union has sent a letter to Meta, the parent company of social media platform X, asking it to take immediate action to remove any posts that may violate its new rules. The letter comes after Breton, an EU member, said that he wants to join Bluesky, a competing social media platform, to protest against the EU’s new social media rules.
There is a place that you can place an order for Meta’s upcoming headset
Meta, the startup co-founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has unveiled its third virtual reality headset, Quest 3. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the headset will have graphics performance double compared to Quest 2 and will be much better than the Quest Pro, which only runs a last-gen chip. It’ll be available in two variants, XR2 Gen 2 ($200) and XR2 Gen 2 ($250).