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Facebook launched its fact-checking program in 2016, following criticism that it had facilitated the spread of so-called fake news leading up to the presidential election. In 2020, Meta’s program expanded and the company rolled out new features to address widespread misinformation around Covid and the 2020 election. Known as the Twitter Files, these series of posts on the platform alleged collusion between disinformation researchers, Twitter employees and government agencies, to censor conservatives. Jordan’s committee subpoenaed Zuckerberg and other tech companies for documents aimed at proving a conspiracy between government, disinformation researchers and Big Tech. “Yes, moderation is imperfect and yes, users across the political spectrum distrust it, but platform moderation policies reflect platform values,” DiResta said.

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Here are the meanings of the least-found words that were used in (mostly) recent Times articles. 1. pellicle — a thin skin or film:Chestnuts, a holiday favorite, don’t make it easy for us to cook them at home. The pellicle, its sticky inner skin, clings to the nut and can give it a bitter taste. This is achieved less by rethinking motivations than by burrowing into the language, far richer than I imagined. — The Best Coffee Break Is an Affogato (Aug. 11, 2021)The list of the week’s easiest words:

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☆ Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation
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Musk has said the company won’t allow anyone back on Twitter who was previously banned for at least a few more weeks. One current and two former employees were also concerned about a planned product that would allow Twitter users to buy verification badges. “Twitter isn’t prepared for that scale,” said one Twitter employee who survived Friday’s layoffs and asked to remain nameless because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal company projects. The Twitter employee said that, as of the layoffs, the plan was that “there’s not going to be any verification of ID” to acquire a verification badge. “Now they’ve taken the brakes off the car.”One laid-off Twitter employee told NBC News that “the only saving grace is that he changes his mind on things all the time.”“There were some incredibly talented people who didn’t deserve this,” said a current Twitter employee.

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