It’s a social networking company with close ties to the incoming Trump administration. It deploys a “community notes” system to fight misinformation and lets hateful comments fly under the banner of “free speech.” It’s got a hefty side-gig in AI. It’s setting up shop in Texas. It’s run by a guy worth hundreds of billions of dollars and the fashion sense of someone a couple of decades younger. No, not X. It’s Meta.
It may soon be hard to tell the difference. Meta this week said it would torpedo its fact-checking partners in favor of X’s “community notes” model (a comparison Meta chief global policy officer Joel Kaplan made directly
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