2025-01-08 19:41:41

Mastodon CEO calls Meta’s moderation changes ‘deeply troubling,’ warns users cross-posting from Threads

Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing fact-checking across its apps in favor of a crowdsourced community notes feature, similar to X’s. The Mastodon founder, whose app competes with X and Meta’s X rival, Instagram Threads, called […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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