Daily Dispatch 1/8/25: Zuck Picks Texas For Meta's Shift Towards Disinformation, and More

Progress Texas Podcasts · Jan 8, 2025 · 7m

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is abandoning its efforts at fact-checking, and moving its content moderation operations to Texas - a move apparently meant to appease Donald Trump: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/07/texas-meta-content-moderators-fact-checking/ ...Texas also provides legal cover for social media platforms who prefer to allow falsehoods to spread without limit: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-elon-musks-lead-trust-safety-billionaire-friendly-texas/ Texas remains one of the three states hosting the most…