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MSNBC's Michael Steele raged at Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Sunday for doing away with fact-checking and allowing "suggestive comments" beneath the pictures of "young girls" on its platforms, among other questionable practices.

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, announced last week that it would no longer fact check posts, essentially opening the floodgates for bigoted and inappropriate content. Zuckerberg's change in tactics is seen as a nod to President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP who claimed Meta fact-checking was biased against conservative content.

Steele, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Alicia Menendez all expressed outrage as they read "permissible" posts from a leaked Meta training manual published by The Intercept. ...

When you use Facebook Messenger these days, a new prompt greets you with this come-on: "Ask Meta AI anything." You may have opened the app to send a text to a pal, but Meta's new artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot is tempting you with encyclopedic knowledge that's just a few keystrokes away. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has planted its home-grown chatbot on its WhatsApp and Instagram services. Now, billions of internet users can open one of these free social media platforms and draw on Meta AI's services as a dictionary, guidebook, counselor or illustrator, among many other tasks......

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Billionaire tech titans Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are seemingly training for a cage fight, but the duel is already playing out in the digital marketplace. Musk’s company Twitter took a hit in website traffic as its new competitor Threads surpassed records for online platform growth. Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, formerly named Facebook, boasted that its new app had garnered 100 million users in just five days.

Musk initially proposed the cage match on June 20, in response to a tweet about Twitter’s upcoming rival, and Zuckerberg responded on Instagram, which Meta bought for $1 billion in 2012. After the launch of Threads, Twitter threatened Meta with legal action, calling the platform a “copycat” app. Musk and Zuckerberg have been dissing each other on their respective platforms ever since. ...

Washington (AFP) - After years of bad press and scandal, Mark Zuckerberg is seeing his reputation spruced up in the fickle world of tech, largely thanks to the increasingly unpredictable behavior of Elon Musk. Always bubbling just beneath the surface, the on-again, off-again rivalry between Musk and Facebook creator Zuckerberg has boiled over with the launch of Twitter-clone Threads. Meta's new app has provoked the Tesla titan to sue Zuckerberg as well as unfurl a spate of potty-mouthed trolling on Twitter. "It's definitely unique to see two people, who obviously are just ungodly wealthy, be i......