Mark Zuckerberg today announced that Facebook is scrapping its “third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model“. Musk led the way on that one…
The Meta boss finally admitted: “What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions.” You don’t say…
No wonder it was time for Clegg to go. Progressive outlets mourn the loss of the censors. The New York Times stresses that the “stark sign of how the company is repositioning itself for the Trump presidency” and complains of the end of “interventions widely seen as effective at reducing belief in falsehoods“. Following suit are, surprise surprise, the Guardian and CNN, whose headline blasts: “more harmful content will appear on the platforms now“. Fans of the right to free expression are celebrating. Seeing as a sixth of its staff were employed as free speech deniers it’s a cost-cutting move from Zuckerberg…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”