Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a statement from Meta Platforms. Internal documents from Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) reportedly indicate a policy designed to protect ...

Meta implemented “guardrails” in 2023 that exempted high-spending advertisers from automatic content moderation, instead routing their content to human reviewers. This system was designed to prevent ...

Meta did not want to mistakenly penalize top brands and risk advertising dollars, so it designated some advertisers as exempt from its content-moderation process to prevent its multibillion-dollar ad ...

Meta’s decision to scrap its third-party fact-checking and to loosen content moderation has been labelled “chilling” and could have “dire consequences” for online safety, experts and campaigners have ...

Content moderation has always been a pit of despair for Meta. And now, Mark Zuckerberg's "apology tour" seems to be ...