Mark Zuckerberg Unloads on Biden White House in Joe Rogan Interview
Mark Zuckerberg unloaded on President Joe Biden and his administration during a surprise appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast that was published Friday.
Zuckerberg attacked the White House over the way senior officials pressured Meta to moderate content on its social media networks, part of a scathing interview just 10 days before Biden is set to leave office.
Zuckerberg calls for "repopulation" of "cultural elite class"
Mark Zuckerberg spent this week reshaping Meta to be more MAGA-friendly, and capped it off Friday by calling for the "repopulation" of the "cultural elite class" on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Why it matters: Over the last few days, Meta has dropped internal DEI guidelines and opened the floodgates for hate speech, racism, and conspiracy theories, but Zuckerberg's comments on Rogan tie him explicitly to right-wing talking points.
TikTok Just Got Closer to Being Banned. Here's What It Means for You
Within days, TikTok could be banned from being distributed in the United States and, eventually, stop working as an app altogether if the U.S. Supreme Court does not intervene to block a bipartisan law that is set to take effect on Jan. 19.
On Friday, Jan. 10, the justices heard arguments on whether or not to step in and temporarily pause the measure given what TikTok claims is a violation of free speech for its tens of millions of American users.
The Big Question At The Heart Of The TikTok Case
When Congress passed the law that required TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell it or see it banned in the U.S., it was partially motivated by the fear that the Chinese government might use TikTok to contort Americans’ discourse, pitting people against one another and eroding their trust in the democratic systems that define American politics.
Supreme Court appears skeptical of blocking US ban on TiKTok: What to know
The Supreme Court on Friday heard oral arguments in a fast-tracked case over the future of TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media app that will be barred from operating in the U.S. in just nine days barring divestiture or eleventh-hour intervention from the high court.
Supreme Court will take up TikTok’s bid to avoid U.S. ban
The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will decide whether a looming ban on TikTok in the U.S. violates the First Amendment.
The high court put the case on an unusually accelerated timeline, agreeing to hear arguments on Jan. 10 — nine days before a law is slated to take effect that would ban the popular app or force its Beijing-based owner ByteDance to sell it.
Texas professors self-censor for fear of retaliation, survey found
University professors across the political spectrum in Texas are preemptively self-censoring themselves for fear of damaging their reputations or losing their jobs, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a First Amendment advocacy group.
Proposal #6: Ye Olde First Amendment
Today we rely upon a for-profit media system that’s desperate for eyeballs, we have social media and extreme polarization, and we are drowning in cheap speech.
WaPo: Meta’s Instagram Buries Political Posts, Slashes Audience by 63% When ‘Vote’ Is Posted
According to the Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and its Instagram, Facebook, and Threads platforms are suppressing content related to the 2024 election, making it harder for users to discuss politics and voting. One influencer suffered from an astonishing 63 percent drop in audience just by mentioning the word “vote” on a post.
‘Fact check’ has become just another word for censorship
“Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: Something that is now entirely in the eye of the beholder.
At the vice presidential debate this week, the CBS moderators once again tried to show that they were the fair and impartial people in the room
Except that — as with the Trump-Harris debate — they only seemed interested in fact-checking in one direction. Against the Republican.
On Tuesday night the subject of Springfield, Ohio, once again came up. And once again Springfield revealed one of the big problems of this media era.