It looks like Instagram’s New Year’s resolution is to be more toxic. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram and its Twitter clone Threads, says the platforms will be “adding political content to recommendations” going forward—just in time to generate rage bait engagement at the start of the second term of the Donald Trump presidency. In a...

Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would end the fact-checking system on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, and instead allow users to verify the accuracy of posts with something akin to the community notes that X has implemented. Meta ramped up its fact-checking after Donald Trump’s first election win in 2016, but Mr Zuckerberg accepts that...

Mark Zuckerberg has “heard the message” from Donald Trump on restricting online content and his Meta platforms will intervene “less and less” on users during the president-elect’s administration, according to the whistleblower Frances Haugen. Haugen, who revealed the Facebook and Instagram owner’s struggles with user safety in 2021, said the US president-elect thought “the right...