Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in U.S. elections as the November midterm vote approaches.
continue to wage aggressive social media propaganda campaigns aimed at further political divides among American audiences.Meta says that elections remain a priority and that policies developed in recent years around election misinformation or foreign interference are now hard-wired into company operations.
He declined to say how many employees would be on the project to protect U.S. elections full time this year. . But The New York Times reported the number of Meta employees working on this year's election had been cut from 300 to 60, a figure Meta disputes.Reynolds said Meta will pull hundreds of employees who work across 40 of the company's other teams to monitor the upcoming vote alongside the election team, with its unspecified number of workers.
This month, Meta also rolled out a new feature for political ads that allows the public to search for details about how advertisers target people based on their interests across Facebook and Instagram.It has stopped making improvements to CrowdTangle, a website it offered to newsrooms around the world that provides insights about trending social media posts.
Österreich Neuesten Nachrichten, Österreich Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
Meta shuts down Russian troll farm linked to sanctioned Putin allyMeta detected the troll farm a month after Russia's invasion of Ukraine began.
Weiterlesen »
Meta takes down Russian troll farm'Cyber Front Z' hired dozens of people off the street to make what appeared to look like authentic posts defending Russia and criticizing Ukraine.
Weiterlesen »
Meta Is So Broke, Mark Zuckerberg Has To Sell His Baseball CardsAn NFT of 8 year old Zuck’s card could be yours.
Weiterlesen »
Meta unleashes BlenderBot 3 upon the internet, its most competent chat AI to date | EngadgetOn Wednesday, Meta's AI Research division will see if its latest iteration of Blenderbot AI can stand up to the horrors of the interwebs with the public demo release of its 175 billion-parameter, Blenderbot 3..
Weiterlesen »
Here are Friday's biggest analyst calls: Apple, Meta, Sunrun, Chevron, Lowe's, Twilio & moreHere are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday.
Weiterlesen »