Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.

Mark Zuckerberg-owned tech giant recently announced end of fact-checking in United States as concerns grow over a similar move in Europe and elsewhere

In a meeting with Meta employees on Thursday, Mr. Zuckerberg also doubled down on recent changes to the company’s online speech policies and ending its diversity initiatives.

Musk is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $449 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He sat alongside Zuckerberg and Bezos, cheering Trump on during his inaugural speech.

As Elon Musk and his billionaire brethren take power in Trump’s second term, the lack of legal guardrails — and the fading power of Big Media — is becoming an existential crisis.

In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, Google has faced three fines totaling more than $8 billion for breaking antitrust law (though one of these fines was overturned by the EU’s General Court in 2024).

Zuckerberg’s decision may have been an effort to court U.S. President Donald Trump, who has frequently railed against the media and Big Tech firms. According to the New York Times, the tech tycoon rolled out his new direction abruptly, blindsiding many of his staff.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a "return to OG Facebook" as part of his key goals for 2025 in Wednesday's Q4 earnings call with investors. While the

On Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said this will be a "big year" for redefining the company's relationship with the federal government.

Meta — and the rest of Big Tech — has been chasing face computers for years. Maybe 2025 will be the year it happens?

But what stays with me isn’t the overwrought antipathy between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the tetchy tech titans who, in the summer of 2023, made noises — let’s call them grunts — about demonstrating their reciprocal disdain by squaring off and throwing down on the kind of stage used for Ultimate Fighting Championship events.

On Friday, Mark Zuckerberg announced a $60-65 billion investment into Meta AI.