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Meta follows Musk’s lead on censorship — but ad industry keeps its distance from panic

Meta is borrowing a page from Elon Musk’s X on free speech and censorship, but advertisers aren’t hitting the panic button — yet.  For now, they’ve brushed off Meta’s decision to scrap its U.S. fact-checking program in favor of a community notes system reminiscent of X’s and to loosen restrictions on contentious topics like immigration and

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Meta drops fact-checking for Facebook and Instagram

Meta is discontinuing the use of independent fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram in favour of a system similar to X’s ‘community notes’. This new approach lets users remark on the accuracy of posts, effectively crowdsourcing content moderation. In a video shared alongside a blog post on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the move…

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Turkish unicorn Insider lands $500M in Series E funding round

Marketing technology platform Insider has raised $500 million in Series E funding, with General Atlantic leading the round. This latest milestone brings the company’s total funding to more than $772 million. Reaching this point has been a remarkable journey. Insider achieved unicorn status in 2022 after raising $121 million in funding. A year later, an…

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