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In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information. TikTok could shut down the
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Meta’s fact-checking partners are rebutting Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion on Tuesday that their work is tantamount to censorship. In announcing the social media giant’s decision to end fact-checking in the U.S. on Facebook, Instagram and other Meta platforms, Zuckerberg said the move would “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms.” In a Facebook post explaining
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Meta’s shift to “Community Notes” and its implications – CBS News Watch CBS News Nick Thompson, CEO of “The Atlantic” and former editor-in-chief of “Wired,” discusses the consequences of Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program and the rise of self-policing in a “post-information” age. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said the social media company is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a community-driven system similar to that of Elon Musk’s X. Zuckerberg cited the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election as underlying the decision, calling it a “cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritizing speech.”
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Meta to end fact-checking on its platforms – CBS News Watch CBS News Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Meta is ending its fact-checking program for its platforms, which include Instagram and Facebook. President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he believed the change might be due to political threats he has made against Zuckerberg and his company
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Nvidia stock soared 24% on Tuesday, a day after of founder Jensen Huang’s speech at CES 2025. Sparking the surge is the chipmaker’s unveiling of its GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs — its most advanced consumer graphics processor units for gamers, creators and developers. In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder
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The U.S. Defense Department has added dozens of Chinese companies, including games and technology company Tencent, artificial intelligence firm SenseTime and the world’s biggest battery maker CATL, to a list of companies it says have ties to China’s military. In recent years, Washington has sought to restrict sharing of advanced technology, including semiconductors and AI,
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Apple agrees to pay $95 million to settle Siri eavesdropping claims Apple agrees to pay $95 million to settle Siri eavesdropping claims 00:29 Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of turning its virtual assistant Siri into a snoop that eavesdropped on the users of iPhones and
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Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices. The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court would resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit revolving around allegations that Apple surreptitiously
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Taco Bell using AI voice to take orders at drive-thru – CBS News Watch CBS News Fast food chain Taco Bell is turning to artificial intelligence to meet the demand of its drive-thru customers. The technology is said to cut the wait for an order by 29 seconds and improve accuracy, according to a study.
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