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Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing: Competing approaches in fight against misinformation

January 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

Meta’s decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions. But taken at face value, the changes raise the question of […]

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A possible TikTok ban is just days away. A list of similar apps available

January 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized […]

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How Britain got its first internet connection

January 13, 2025 Tech Xplore

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was […]

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Meta abandons racial diversity programs in further right-wing shift

January 11, 2025 Tech Xplore

Social media giant Meta announced Friday it is dismantling its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs across the company, marking another major shift in strategy as it aligns with politically conservative priorities.This article was originally […]

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How Meta’s fact-checking program works

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Internet giant Meta’s fact-checking program aims to counter false information on its social platforms—Facebook, Instagram and Threads—with the help of media organizations, including AFP.This article was originally published on this website.

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Meta policy reversal puts question mark on future of fact-checking

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Media outlets around the world have been left scratching their heads over the future of their fact-checking operations after Meta’s shock announcement that it will halt its US program.This article was originally published on this […]

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‘Real-world harm’ if Meta ends fact-checks, global network warns

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

There will be “real-world harm” if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg’s claim such moderation amounts to censorship.This article was originally […]

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Zuckerberg’s censorship claim ‘false’: International Fact-Checking Network

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that the fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram has veered into censorship is “false”, the International Fact-Checking Network said Thursday.This article was originally published on this website.

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How secure is your Wi-Fi network? Research uncovers major vulnerability in wireless networking technology

January 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

We often take for granted just how ubiquitous Wi-Fi has become over the past two decades, explains Northeastern University electrical and computer engineering professor Francesco Restuccia, who is also a member of the Institute for […]

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New tool finds hidden biases in Wikipedia’s multilingual content

January 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

Cultural and social biases significantly influence Wikipedia’s multilingual content, according to a team of researchers that includes a computer scientist from Johns Hopkins University.This article was originally published on this website.

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