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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are just beginning.
Mark Zuckerberg named in lawsuit over Meta’s use of pirated books for AI training
Authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, allege Meta's illegal use of copyrighted materials to build AI models.
Mark Zuckerberg Compares Meta’s Fact-Checking to ‘1984’ as His Apps Prepare for Community Notes
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he decided to end Facebook and Instagram's fact-checking operation because it too closely resembled "1984"
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.
Meta knew it used pirated books to train AI, authors say
Meta Platforms used pirated versions of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of authors alleged in newly disclosed court papers.
Facebook Apparently Trained Its AI by Torrenting Pirated Books Stolen From Authors
Free Loaders Newly unredacted court documents allege that Meta, formerly Facebook, knowingly used pirated books obtained from the online archive Library Genesis to train its AI models, Wired reports.
Court filing says Zuck knowingly okayed training Facebook's AI on pirated books
Sometimes, companies trying to homebrew their own uncreativity engines attempt to throw money at this problem, licensing books or articles as training data from authors and publishers. And sometimes they,
Authors sue Meta alleging it used pirated books to train its AI systems
A group of authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, have accused Facebook parent Meta Platforms of using pirated books to train its artific
Lawsuit says Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta's use of pirated materials to train Llama AI
Meta allegedly used copyrighted journals, books and other materials from the LibGen dataset to train its Llama AI models.

Meta announces end of its DEI programs

Mark Zuckerberg Defends Meta's Fact-Checking Ban to Joe Rogan: Company Faced ‘Massive Institutional Pressure to Basically Start Censoring Content'
Meta chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan’s podcast to defend his recent decision to end fact-checking on the ...
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Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan That Biden Admin Would ‘Scream’ And ‘Curse’ At Meta Employees To Censor ‘True’ Content
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told podcast host Joe Rogan on Friday that officials in President Joe Biden’s administration would ...
Zuckerberg says Biden officials would ‘scream,’ ‘curse’ at Meta team over COVID takedown requests
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on said Biden administration officials would “scream” and “curse” at his employees when they ...
Meta's right turn on red: Zuckerberg turns toward MAGA
All these moves indicate a rightward shift for Meta, as Zuckerberg joins the other leaders of Big Tech trying to curry favor ...
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Zuckerberg Exposes Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’
Biden administration officials, he tells Joe Rogan, would ‘scream’ and ‘curse’ at staffers from Meta.
Zuckerberg torches the Biden administration over its heavy-handed tactics during Covid
"It was brutal." Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden administration would scream and curse at his employees to get them ...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Right Turn
The Meta mogul is making moves that could curry favor with the president-elect, ending its DEI program, bashing "legacy media ...
71 organizations and counting have signed a letter warning Mark Zuckerberg about ending fact-checking on Meta in the US
The International Fact-Checking Network proposed crowdsourcing in conjunction with professionals, a "new model." ...
Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites 'recent elections' as a catalyst
The changes worry advocates for vulnerable groups, who say Meta's decision to scale back content moderation could lead to ...