In light of Meta's plans to end fact-checking, I went back through Zuckerberg's past Congressional testimonies to see what he said about the topic while in the House and Senate in 2018, 2020 and 2021. Here's a snippet from his 2018 opening statement:
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DOJ and FTC File Amicus Brief in Epic v Google Trial
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The @TheJusticeDept and @FTC just filed an amicus brief in the Epic v Google trial. The filing mentions remedies, the need to address Google's network effects, refutes Google's market definitions and says Google shouldn't be able to use out-of-market competition as a defense.
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Reddit Pro Trends Tracks Brand Mentions Using ML NLP
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Reddit Pro Trends aims to help marketers track brand mentions, topics and categories across platform conversations based on keywords and phrases. It uses ML techniques like named entity recognition (a subset of NLP) to track >100,000 "smart" keywords.
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Reddit Launches AI-Powered Marketing Tools at CES 2025
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Feels weird not being at @CES this week, but I'm still covering some #CES2025 news from NYC! @Reddit debuted new marketing tools including convo-tracking feature called Reddit Pro Trends and a new ad format for branded "Ask Me Anything" sessions called "AMA Ads." (Link in the)
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NER and NLP Experts Needed for Multiple Stories
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NLP! Specifically NER for one story, but I'm also looking for people to talk about both NLP and LLMs across various applications for a few other topics/stories.
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Get_Writer Launches Palmyra Creative AI Model
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Great talking with @waseem_s about how @Get_Writer developed its new Palmyra Creative model, which debuted last month.
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Meta announces major AI changes and backstory details
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Good thread with some of the backstory above about the big changes Meta just announced this morning.
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Meta and FCC Leadership Changes: Kaplan and Martin Promotions
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To clarify, Kaplan also worked at Meta but was just promoted. (Kevin Martin, who was appointed to the FCC by Bush, also just got promoted to take over Kaplan’s old role.)
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Meta hires GOP-aligned executives Dana White Joel Kaplan
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Which other GOP-aligned people has Meta either hired or promoted in the past few days? (Dana White, Joel Kaplan, Francis Brennan, Kevin Martin…)
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Meta Hires Third GOP Official in Week, Replaces Clegg
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Dana White, who intro’d Trump at the 2024 RNC, is Meta’s third GOP hire in a week. -Republican Joel Kaplan just replaced @nickclegg
. – Francis Brennan just joined Meta’s policy comms team. (He was House GOP deputy comms director and before that was on Trump’s 2020 campaign.)