Some of them described facing increasing online harassment, direct attacks from politicians and even death threats since Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he ... the new system as a ...

There is little to Mark Zuckerberg beyond the desire to make ... equivalent to a quick-hit Wikipedia that performs the truth-telling task adequately. More important, news organizations can ...

Mr Mantzarlis is also deeply critical of the decision to axe fact checkers. But like many experts, he also makes another ...

Hollywood stars and tech leaders are joining forces to create a decentralized social media landscape free from the influence ...

If you’ve heard of Bluesky, you’ve probably heard of it as a clone of Twitter where liberals can take refuge. But under the ...

In one way, Bay Area tech CEOs’ very visible presence at President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday was an almighty flex, a crowning moment for an industry that has remade the economy and society ...

The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...

Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the US senate ... Crowdsourced systems such as Wikipedia, Metaculus and PredictIt, though imperfect, often succeed at harnessing the wisdom of crowds — where ...

Relying on social media users to police information accuracy could further polarise platforms and amplify extreme voices.

And Mark Zuckerberg, who owns a controlling stake ... including Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, actor Mark Ruffalo, early Facebook backer Roger McNamee and musician Brian Eno.

"Mark Zuckerberg was clearly pandering to the incoming ... "Birdwatch", as it was then known, began in 2021 and drew inspiration from Wikipedia, which is written and edited by volunteers.