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EPISODE · Jan 8, 2025 · 22 MIN

Zuck to America: Texas Less Biased Than My Professional Fact-Checkers

from Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast · host WNYC Studios

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that its social media platforms -- Facebook, Instagram and Threads -- will stop using third-party fact-checkers and rely solely on its users to flag misinformation.On Today's Show:Mike Isaac, New York Times reporter covering tech companies and Silicon Valley, explains why the company is repositioning its policy and how that may favor President-elect Donald Trump's second administration. Plus, Yael Eisenstat senior fellow at Cybersecurity for Democracy and former global head of Elections Integrity Ops for political advertising at Facebook discusses her time at Facebook in 2018 as the head of global elections integrity for political ads and what this new move could mean for the company’s ability to meet its responsibility to secure elections. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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